title: Lack of continuity between Cronobacter biotypes and species as determined using multilocus sequence typing.
abstract: The accuracy of the Cronobacter biotyping scheme was compared with the 7-loci multilocus sequence typing scheme. Biotyping did not reliably assign species level identification, as only half (17/31) of the biotype variants were unique to any of the seven Cronobacter species and the remaining biotypes were shared across the genus.
authors.affiliation: Pathogen Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.forename: Sumyya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hariri
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Forsythe
mesh_terms: D059126:Cronobacter / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry; D014644:Genetic Variation; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing / Q000379:methods*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial