Institute of Hygiene and National Consulting Laboratory for Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, University Hospital Münster, Robert-Koch-Strasse 41, 48149 Münster, Germany.
J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Oct;49(10):3644-6. doi: 10.1128/JCM.05035-11. Epub 2011 Aug 10.
Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) was compared to multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to differentiate hemolytic uremic syndrome-associated enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains. Although MLVA--like MLST--was highly discriminatory (index of diversity, 0.988 versus 0.984), a low level of concordance demonstrated the limited ability of MLVA to reflect long-term evolutionary events.
多位点可变数目串联重复分析(MLVA)与多位点序列分型(MLST)相比较,用于区分溶血性尿毒症综合征相关肠出血性大肠杆菌菌株。虽然 MLVA 与 MLST 一样具有高度的区分度(多样性指数分别为 0.988 和 0.984),但其一致性水平较低表明 MLVA 反映长期进化事件的能力有限。