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. 2003 Jul;41(7):3323-6.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.7.3323-3326.2003.

Multilocus sequence typing of Staphylococcus aureus with DNA array technology

Willem B van Leeuwen  1 , Corinne Jay, Susan Snijders, Nathalia Durin, Bruno Lacroix, Henry A Verbrugh, Mark C Enright, Alain Troesch, Alex van Belkum
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Multilocus sequence typing of Staphylococcus aureus with DNA array technology

Willem B van Leeuwen et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Jul.

Abstract

A newly developed oligonucleotide array suited for multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of Staphylococcus aureus strains was analyzed with two strain collections in a two-center study. MLST allele identification for the first strain collection fully agreed with conventional strain typing. Analysis of strains from the second collection revealed that chip-defined MLST was concordant with conventional MLST. Array-mediated MLST data were reproducible, exchangeable, and epidemiologically concordant.

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