title: Note from the editors: consensus paper on MLVA development, validation, nomenclature and quality control--an important step forward for molecular typing-based surveillance and outbreak investigation.
mesh_terms: D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D058889:Molecular Typing / Q000592:standards*; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D015203:Reproducibility of Results