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Burkholderia MLST schemes
Papers describing various MLST schemes have been published :
(i) for the entire B. cepacia complex : Baldwin, A., Mahenthiralingam, E., Thickett, K.M., Honeybourne, D., Maiden, M.C.J., Govan, J.R., Speert, D.P., LiPuma, J.J., Vandamme, P. and Dowson, C.G. (2005). Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme That Provides Both Species and Strain Differentiation for the Burkholderia cepacia Complex. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43: 4665-4673
(ii) for B. pseudomallei, B. mallei and B. thailandensis : Godoy D, Randle G, Simpson AJ, Aanensen DM, Pitt TL, Kinoshita R, Spratt BG.(2003). Multilocus sequence typing and evolutionary relationships among the causative agents of melioidosis and glanders, Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei.J Clin Microbiol. 41:2068-2079. Erratum in: J Clin Microbiol. 2003 41:4913.
The B. pseudomallei dataset can be accessed at http://bpseudomallei.mlst.net/
The B. cenocepacia dataset can be accessed at http://pubmlst.org/bcc |