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SUBMITTER: Cantinelli T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3889766 | biostudies-other | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of clinical microbiology 20130904 11
The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is genetically heterogeneous. Although some clonal groups have been implicated in multiple outbreaks, there is currently no consensus on how "epidemic clones" should be defined. The objectives of this work were to compare the patterns of sequence diversity on two sets of genes that have been widely used to define L. monocytogenes clonal groups: multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MvLST). Further, we evaluated ...[more]