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Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
VNTRs appropriate evolutionary marker for studying bacterial transmission events
March 22nd, 2005
Variable-number tandem repeats are an appropriate evolutionary marker for studying bacterial transmission events. According to recent research from England, "Variable-number tandem repeats (VNTRs) have been shown to be a powerful tool in the determination of evolutionary relationships and population genetics of bacteria. "The sequencing of a number of Staphylococcus aureus genomes has allowed the identification of novel VNTR sequences in S. aureus, which are similar to those used in the study of the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clades." "Seven VNTRs, termed staphylococcal interspersed repeat units...
Source: Health Risk Factor Week (2005-03-22)
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