| molecular typing of japanese escherichia coli o157 : h7 isolates from clinical specimens by multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis and pfge. | the multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (mlva) method to target eight variable-number tandem repeat loci, based on agarose gel electrophoresis separation of multiplexed pcr products, and the pfge method were applied to clinical isolates of escherichia coli o157 : h7 with the aim of comparing their performance as methods of typing this bacterium. using mlva, a total of 57 isolates from patients in shizuoka prefecture, japan, were divided into 20 types and classified into 23 pfge typ ... | 2008 | 18065668 |