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Article: Sequencing and staphylococci identification.
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
- Author:
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The emerging clinical importance of staphylococcal infections prompted us to establish a reference database for partial RNA polymerase B (rpoB; nucleotides 1444-1928) gene sequences from type strains of all staphylococcal species and subspecies. This database correctly identified 55 clinical staphylococcal isolates; all were correctly identified at the species level. At the subspecies level, rpoB misidentified only 2 isolates.
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The emerging clinical importance of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci (1) in connection with the expanding number of staphylococcal subspecies described requires accurate identification to the ...