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Results: Fifty-four cluster- related isolates occurred in 47 separate presentations.
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Interestingly, distinct genetic events were identified among clonally related isolates, including a new amino acid alteration.
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There is a case for the creation of a new taxon to accommodate this and related isolates.
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Both typing procedures correctly identified outbreak- related isolates as belonging to the same type in four separate outbreaks.
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These viruses had low pathogenicity; however, continued characterization of related isolates is warranted because of their high potential for reassortment.
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In some geographic regions, closely related isolates cluster, suggesting endemic spread of the virus, while in other regions multiple genotypes circulate.
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The most distantly related isolates were only 90.1% identical.
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We furthermore investigated the possibility that EPS impacts community structure as a shared resource facilitating cooperative migration among closely related isolates of M. xanthus.
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We determined that the 2016-2017 outbreak of IPD in Chiba Prefecture was caused by clonally related isolates of serotype 12F.
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A small percentage of outbreak- related isolates had PFGE patterns that differed slightly (one or two DNA fragment differences) from that of the outbreak strain.
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Hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are frequently caused by predominant clusters of closely related isolates that cannot be discriminated by conventional diagnostic typing methods.
