Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny

Abstract Although multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is highly discriminatory and useful for outbreak investigations and epidemiological surveillance, it has always been controversial whether clustering and phylogeny inferred from the MLST gene loci can represent the real phylogeny of bacterial strai...

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Main Authors: Alan K. L. Tsang, Hwei Huih Lee, Siu-Ming Yiu, Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04707-4