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Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Method for Typing Salmonella enterica Serovar Newport
... Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analyses (MLVA) have been developed for subtyping bacterial pathogens, in- cluding Salmonella enterica (12, 13, 16, ...
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Use of Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Typing Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis
... the number of MIRUs of 40 to 100 bp in ...in tandem repeats and are dispersed in inter- genic regions of ...studies, variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing of ...
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Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Typing of Staphylococcus epidermidis
... Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) has proved efficient for high-resolution typing of sev- eral bacterial species (4, 6, ...of tandem repeats that are present ...
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Selection and Validation of a Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis Panel for Typing Shigella spp
... In addition, the discriminatory power of phenotypic tools and serotyping is limited and requires the manipulation of the live agent. The introduction of DNA-based molecular typing methods, such as ribotyping (5), plasmid ...
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Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Molecular Typing of Shigella sonnei
... multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) method was developed and evaluated for the subtyping of Shigella sonnei ...the repeat sequence loci in the genomic ...
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Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis as a Tool for Subtyping Listeria monocytogenes Strains
... multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) that can be implemented in PulseNet laboratories to replace or complement existing ...the number of ...
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Rapid Variable Number Tandem Repeat Genotyping for Mycobacterium leprae Clinical Specimens
... multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) has been explored as a tool for strain typing and identification of chains of transmission of ...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype in Russia: in Search of Informative Variable Number Tandem Repeat Loci
... to variable- number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing using 24 loci of a newly proposed format and three hypervariable (HV) loci (QUB-3232, VNTR-3820, and ...
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Development of Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Molecular Typing of Mycoplasma pneumoniae
... In this study we report on the development of a multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) method for the molecular typing of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. The genomic content of ...
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Rapid Identification of Laboratory Contamination withMycobacterium tuberculosis Using Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis
... Compared with solid media, broth-based mycobacterial culture systems have increased sensitivity but also have higher false-positive rates due to cross-contamination. Systematic strain typing is rarely undertaken because ...
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Application of Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Molecular Typing of the Agent of Leptospirosis
... Leptospirosis is a worldwide-distributed zoonosis, endemic in tropical areas. Epidemiologic investigations of leptospirosis still rely on tedious serological identification tests. Recently, molecular typing systems based ...
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Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Investigation of Clostridium difficile Transmission in Hospitals
... Clostridium difficile is a major cause of antibiotic-associated gastrointestinal illness. Recently, an increased incidence of hospital-acquired infections with severe outcomes has been reported in North America and ...
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Development and validation of a multiple locus variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) scheme for Fusobacterium necrophorum
... locus variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) is an objective, repeatable, PCR-based strain typing method that has been used in a variety of epidemiological studies of bacterial ...
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Highly Discriminatory Variable Number Tandem Repeat Markers for Genotyping of Trichophyton interdigitale Strains
... Recently, microsatellite markers have proven their utility for the detection of variability among dermatophytes (13). In other human-pathogenic dermatophytes, multilocus microsatellite typ- ing has proved to be a ...
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Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Typing of Mycobacterium ulcerans
... The apparent genetic homogeneity of Mycobacterium ulcerans contributes to the poorly understood epidemi- ology of M. ulcerans infection. Here, we report the identification of variable number tandem ...
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Identification and Characterization of Variable Number Tandem Repeat Markers for Typing of Brucella spp
... 21 variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) loci consisting of 13 previously unreported loci and 8 loci previ- ously reported ...The number of alleles detected ranged from 2 to 21, and ...
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Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of the Swine Dysentery Pathogen, Brachyspira hyodysenteriae
... multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) method that could be used in basic veterinary diagnostic microbiology laboratories equipped with PCR technology or in more advanced ...
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Comparison of a Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) Method for Typing Mycobacterium avium with Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit VNTR and IS1245 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Typing
... a variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) typing method using the Mycobacterium avium tandem repeat (MATR) loci (MATR-VNTR) is employed in Japan for epidemiological studies using ...
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Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
... multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) was developed to assess the molecular epidemiology of ...5 variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) loci ...
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Evaluation of a Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis Scheme for Typing Human Brucella Isolates in a Region of Brucellosis Endemicity
... multilocus variable- number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) was found to have a high degree of resolution when it was applied to collections of Brucella isolates from geographically widespread ...
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