Podschun R, Ullmann U. Klebsiella spp. as nosocomial pathogens: epidemiology, taxonomy, typing methods, and pathogenicity factors.
Podschun, R. & Ullmann, U. Klebsiella spp. as nosocomial pathogens: epidemiology, taxonomy, typing methods, and pathogenicity factors.
Wust, J., Sullivan, N.M., Hardegger, U. & Wilkins, T.D. Investigation of an outbreak of antibiotic-associated colitis by various typing methods.
In current years, serological methods have been replaced with DNA based typing methods.
The above-mentioned rock typing methods, however, are based on petrophysical properties or empirical knowledge.
DNA based method had more sensitivity, accuracy and resolving power than serologic typing methods [25].
Past typing methods gave us a very coarse view of strain diversity.
The principles and characteristics of various typing methods discussed earlier are summarized in Table 1.
In the present study a higher discriminatory power was achieved by combining different typing methods: PCR and PFGE-based typing methods.
While some typing methods are better than others in these aspects, most of the multi-locus typing methods examined produced a similar tree architecture.
Thus, molecular typing methods are required.
