Novel multilocus sequence typing and global sequence clustering schemes for characterizing the population diversity of Streptococcus mitis by Kalizang’oma, A, Kwambana-Adams, B, Chan, JM, Viswanath, A, Gori, A, Richard, D, Jolley, KA, Lees, J, Goldblatt, D, Beleza, S, Bentley, SD, Heyderman, RS, Chaguza, C

“…We used internal 450-bp sequence fragments of seven housekeeping genes (<em>accA</em>,&nbsp;<em>gki</em>,&nbsp;<em>hom</em>,&nbsp;<em>oppC</em>,&nbsp;<em>patB</em>,&nbsp;<em>rlmN</em>, and&nbsp;<em>tsf</em>) to define the MLST scheme and derived the global&nbsp;S. mitis&nbsp;sequence clusters using the PopPUNK clustering algorithm. We identified an initial set of 259 sequence types (STs) and 258 global sequence clusters. …”