Genetic Diversity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Housekeeping Genes
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Genetic diversity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae housekeeping genes.
Molecular typing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains is an important tool for epidemiological studies of gonococcal infection and transmission. The recently developed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) method is based on the genetic variation among housekeeping genes. As a preliminary investigation for the development of such a method, we characterized the genetic diversity at 18 gonococcal houseke...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0095-1137
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.41.1.197-204.2003