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Characterization of clonal relatedness among the natural population of Staphylococcus aureus strains by using spa sequence typing and the BURP (based upon repeat patterns) algorithm.

Alexander Mellmann, Thomas Weniger, Christoph Berssenbrügge, Ursula Keckevoet, Alexander W Friedrich, Dag Harmsen, Hajo Grundmann

Institute for Hygiene, University Hospital Münster, Robert-Koch-Str. 41, 48149 Münster, Germany.

Journal Article: Journal of clinical microbiology (impact factor: 4.16). 08/2008; 46(8):2805-8. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00071-08

Abstract

We evaluated the BURP (based upon repeat patterns) algorithm, which relies on sequencing of the Staphylococcus aureus protein A gene (spa), for its ability to infer clonal relatedness within a population of 110 wild-type strains. BURP clustering of the resulting 66 spa types was highly concordant with multilocus sequence typing (96.5% concordance) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (94.9%).

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Keywords

110 wild-type strains
 
infer clonal relatedness
 
multilocus sequence typing
 
repeat patterns
 
resulting 66 spa types
 
Staphylococcus aureus protein