Inaccurate Multilocus Sequence Typing of Acinetobacter Baumannii

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2018 Dec 19

PMID 30561303

Citations 22

Authors

Santiago Castillo-Ramirez

Lucia Grana-Miraglia

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Abstract

Multilocus sequence typing has been useful for genotyping pathogens in surveillance and epidemiologic studies. However, it cannot reflect the true relationships of isolates for species with very dynamic genomes. Using a robust genome phylogeny, we demonstrated the limitations of this method for typing Acinetobacter baumannii.

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