The Clermont Escherichia coli phylo-typing method revisited: Improvement of specificity and detection of new phylo-groups

Clermont, Olivier; Christenson, Julia; Denamur, Erick; Gordon, David

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The Clermont Escherichia coli phylo-typing method revisited: Improvement of specificity and detection of new phylo-groups

Date

2013

Authors

Clermont, Olivier

Christenson, Julia

Denamur, Erick

Gordon, David

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract

There is extensive genetic substructure within the species Escherichia coli. In 2000 a simple triplex PCR method was described by Clermont and colleagues that enables an E.coli isolate to be assigned to one of the phylo-groups A, B1, B2 or D. The growing