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Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1-2013

Citation

Journal of Clinical Microbiology 51(1) pp. 306-310 January 2013. doi:10.1128/JCM.02421-12

Abstract

Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is an opportunistic pathogen in dogs. Four housekeeping genes with allelic polymorphisms were identified and used to develop an expanded multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme. The new seven-locus technique shows S. pseudintermedius to have greater genetic diversity than previous methods and discriminates more isolates based upon host origin.

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