Assigning Escherichia coli strains to phylogenetic groups: multi-locus sequence typing versus the PCR triplex method
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2008
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Gordon, David
Clermont, Olivier
Tolley, Heather
Denamur, Erick
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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It is well recognized that Escherichia coli consists of a number of distinct phylo-groups and that strains of the different phylo-groups vary in their ecological niches, life-history characteristics and propensity to cause disease. Consequently, much can
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Keywords: bacterial DNA; Escherichia coli protein; article; bacterium identification; chemistry; classification; cluster analysis; comparative study; DNA sequence; Escherichia coli; genetics; genotype; methodology; phylogeny; polymerase chain reaction; Bacterial Ty
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Environmental Microbiology
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