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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Jenke C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3187322 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20110810 10
Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) was compared to multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to differentiate hemolytic uremic syndrome-associated enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains. Although MLVA--like MLST--was highly discriminatory (index of diversity, 0.988 versus 0.984), a low level of concordance demonstrated the limited ability of MLVA to reflect long-term evolutionary events. ...[more]