title: Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for characterization of Enterobacter cloacae.
abstract: Enterobacter cloacae is an important emerging pathogen, which sometime causes respiratory infection, surgical site infection, urinary infection, sepsis, and outbreaks at neonatal units. We have developed a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme utilizing seven housekeeping genes and evaluated the performance in 101 clinical isolates. The MLST scheme yielded 83 sequence types (ST) including 78 novel STs found in the clinical isolates. These findings supported the robustness of the MLST scheme developed in this study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyoshi-Akiyama
authors.forename: Kayoko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayakawa
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohmagari
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimojima
authors.forename: Teruo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kirikae
mesh_terms: D016972:Enterobacter cloacae / Q000235:genetics*; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing / Q000379:methods*