Polymorphic Amplified Typing Sequences and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Yield Comparable Results in the Strain Typing of a Diverse Set of Bovine <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7 Isolates

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="140105.fig.003a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijmicro/volume-2012/140105/figures/140105.fig.003a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Combined  PATS </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="140105.fig.003b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijmicro/volume-2012/140105/figures/140105.fig.003b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b> Combined PFGE </td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Analysis of relatedness between the 25 bovine O157 isolates. (a) Dendogram for combined-PATS (<i>Xba</i>I-, <i>Avr</i>II- and virulence genes-based) profiles was constructed using the UPGMA option in the phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (PAUP; Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, Sunderland, Ma.). (b) Dendogram for combined-PFGE resulting from cluster analysis of combined Dice coefficients from PFGE following digestion with <i>Xba</i>I and PFGE following digestion with <i>Avr</i>II. Red line on each dendogram delineates isolates similarly grouped by combined-PATS and combined-PFGE.</table>

International Journal of Microbiology

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Figure 3: Polymorphic Amplified Typing Sequences and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Yield Comparable Results in the Strain Typing of a Diverse Set of Bovine <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7 Isolates 

Figure 3 | Polymorphic Amplified Typing Sequences and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Yield Comparable Results in the Strain Typing of a Diverse Set of Bovine Escherichia coli O157:H7 Isolates 