Class: spaTyping

comment "spaTyping is a typing method based on sequencing of the polymorphic X region of the protein A gene (spa), present in all strains of Staphylococcus aureus. The X region is constituted of a variable number of 24-bp repeats flanked by well-conserved regions. Shopsin B, Gomez M, Montgomery SO, Smith DH, Waddington M, Dodge DE, Bost DA, Riehman M, Naidich S, Kreiswirth BN.Evaluation of protein A gene polymorphic region DNA sequencing for typing of Staphylococcus aureus strains.J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Nov;37(11):3556-63. Harmsen D, Claus H, Witte W, Rothgänger J, Claus H, Turnwald D, Vogel U. Typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a university hospital setting by using novel software for spa repeat determination and database management. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Dec;41(12):5442-8." ()

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