BMC Microbiology

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Multilocus sequence typing of Cronobacter sakazakii and Cronobacter malonaticus reveals stable clonal structures with clinical significance which do not correlate with biotypes

Adam Baldwin1, Michael Loughlin2, Juncal Caubilla-Barron2, Eva Kucerova2, Georgina Manning2, Christopher Dowson1 and Stephen Forsythe2*

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1 Biological Sciences Department, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

2 School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK

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BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:223 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-9-223

Published: 23 October 2009

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Additional file 1:

MLST analysis of the Cronobacter isolates showing their source, geographic location and species. The data provided shows the spacial, temporal and source of strains used in this study, and reference where the strains have been used in previous publications.

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