Multilocus sequence typing database for Streptococcus agalactiae contains a spurious allele of the transketolase gene

Multilocus sequence typing database for Streptococcus agalactiae contains a spurious allele of the transketolase gene

ABSTRACT The tkt (transketolase) gene is one of the seven gene fragments used in the multilocus sequence typing (MLST) system for Streptococcus agalactiae. We discovered that the tkt_134 allele is derived from a homologous gene (which we designate tktX) that is not present in all S. agalactiae; all...

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Główni autorzy: Swaine L. Chen, Suma Tiruvayipati, Wen Ying Tang, Timothy M. S. Barkham
Format: Artykuł
Język:English
Wydane: American Society for Microbiology 2024-09-01
Seria:Microbiology Spectrum
Hasła przedmiotowe:
MLST
GBS
S. agalactiae
molecular epidemiology
Dostęp online:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00537-24

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