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. 2005 Oct;43(10):5291-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.10.5291-5294.2005.

Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing clarifies epidemiology of recent listeriosis outbreaks in the United States

Yi Chen  1 , Wei Zhang, Stephen J Knabel
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Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing clarifies epidemiology of recent listeriosis outbreaks in the United States

Yi Chen et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Oct.

Abstract

Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MVLST) was used to analyze isolates from two major listeriosis outbreaks in the United States in 1998 and 2002 that were due to consumption of contaminated hot dogs and turkey deli meat, respectively. MVLST demonstrated high epidemiological relevance and indicated that the two outbreaks were the result of one epidemic.

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FIG. 1.
Neighbor-joining tree of all Listeria monocytogenes isolates based on p distance of the concatenated sequences (total of 2,641 bp) of six loci. Bootstrap values (1,000 replications) are shown at the interior branches.
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