Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Canonical Insertion-Deletion Markers for Rapid DNA Typing of Francisella tularensis

Pär Larsson*†, Kerstin Svensson*†, Linda Karlsson*, Dimitri Guala*, Malin Granberg*, Mats Forsman*, and Anders Johansson*†

Author affiliations: *Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden; †Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;

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Locations of 38 insertion-deletion and 25 multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) markers on the physical genome map of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis strain SCHU S4. Positions are given with reference to the predicted origin of replication set at position 0. Indel and MLVA marker locations are depicted by wedges on the outside and inside of the circle, respectively. Two asterisks indicate the duplicate occurrence of the MLVA loci Ft-M14 at 2 different locations because it is part of a large sized genome duplication (1,25).

Figure 1. Locations of 38 insertion-deletion and 25 multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) markers on the physical genome map of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis strain SCHU S4. Positions are given with reference to the predicted origin of replication set at position 0. Indel and MLVA marker locations are depicted by wedges on the outside and inside of the circle, respectively. Two asterisks indicate the duplicate occurrence of the MLVA loci Ft-M14 at 2 different locations because it is part of a large sized genome duplication (1,25).

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