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Garcia-Yoldi et al. evaluate in this report published in "Vaccine" the stability of the tandem repeat loci used in the MLVA16 assay, by typing a collection of field isolates of the vaccine strain Rev1.
Christine Pourcel and collaborators published in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology an MLVA typing assay for Legionella pneumophila. The assay is based upon ten robust loci, and was successfully tested on the reference strains panels established by the european consortium EWGLI. This report is a very significant improvement of the initial assay published by Pourcel et al. in 2003, and was made possible by the release of additional Legionella pneumophila genome (...)
Les inscriptions sont closes pour l’ atelier MLVA2009. Compte tenu de l’intérêt suscité par (...)
The University Paris-Sud (U-PSUD) has created a new domain name to host the MLVA WebService : (...)
Registration to the MLVA2007 course to be held december 3rd to 5th is closed due to limited (...)
Grissa et al. have just published in a special "in silico biology" issue of the Biochimie (...)
The next (8th) International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM) will be held (...)
Du 3 au 5 décembre 2007, le Val de Grâce accueillera à Paris ce qui sera probablement le premier (...)