MLST revisited: the gene-by-gene approach to bacterial genomics.

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable sequence-based method for identifying clonal relationships among bacteria. Today, in the whole-genome era of microbiology, the need for systematic, standardized descriptions of bacterial genotypic variation remains a priority. Here...

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Main Authors: Maiden, M, Jansen van Rensburg, M, Bray, J, Earle, S, Ford, SA, Jolley, K, McCarthy, N
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013