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Improved identification of epidemiologically related strains of Salmonella enterica by use of a fusion algorithm based on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multiple-locus variable-number tandemrepeat analysis

Broschat, Shira L.; Call, Douglas R.; Davis, Margaret A.; Meng, Da; Lockwood, S.; Ahmed, R.; Besser, Thomas E (Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2010-11)

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) are used to assess genetic similarity between bacterial strains. There are cases, however, when neither of these ...