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SUBMITTER: Chenal-Francisque V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3716049 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chenal-Francisque Viviane V Diancourt Laure L Cantinelli Thomas T Passet Virginie V Tran-Hykes Coralie C Bracq-Dieye Hélène H Leclercq Alexandre A Pourcel Christine C Lecuit Marc M Brisse Sylvain S
Journal of clinical microbiology 20130410 6
Populations of the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes are genetically structured into a small number of major clonal groups, some of which have been implicated in multiple outbreaks. The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate an optimized multilocus variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) subtyping scheme for strain discrimination and clonal group identification. We evaluated 18 VNTR loci and combined the 11 best ones into two multiplexed PCR assays (MLVA-11). A c ...[more]