MLVA genotyping of human Brucella isolates from Peru.

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Henk L Smits; Benjamin Espinosa; Rosa Castillo; Eric Hall; Alfredo Guillen; Milagros Zevaleta; Robert H Gilman; Paolo Melendez; Carlos Guerra; Angelika Draeger; et al. (Profiled Author: Robert Gilman)

KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute/Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT), Meibergdreef 39, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. h.smits@kit.nl
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2009;103(4):399-402.

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Abstract

Recent human Brucella melitensis isolates from Peru were genotyped by multiple locus variable number repeat analysis. All 24 isolates originated from hospitalized patients living in the central part of Peru and consisted of six genomic groups comprising two to four isolates and nine unique genotypes. The isolates were most closely related to the two previously genotyped isolates from Mexico, with a maximum distance of 2 to 4. The Peruvian strains were clearly distinct from the East and West Mediterranean groups of B. melitensis genotypes, suggesting that they may constitute a unique Latin American cluster.

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