Identification of polymorphic tandem repeats by direct comparison of genome sequence from different bacterial strains: a web-based resource.

BACKGROUND: Polymorphic tandem repeat typing is a new generic technology which has been proved to be very efficient for bacterial pathogens such as B. anthracis, M. tuberculosis, P. aeruginosa, L. pneumophila, Y. pestis. The previously developed tandem repeats database takes advantage of the release... View More