Genetic approaches to the identification of the mitis group … of the superoxide dismutase genes
described in this paper are … this gene for the identification of members of the mitis group. …

… the mitis group were identified at the species level by using a concatenated 16S rRNA gene-…
were originated in genetic interchanges with Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus oralis. …

… review, including PCR- and gene sequencing-based tests as … in our understanding of
relationships within the Mitis group. … by several molecular and other approaches and the purpose …

… As the seven housekeeping genes were extracted from WGS in our study, the amplification
… As WGS becomes more available to the routine laboratories, multi-gene approaches for …

… Restructuring of the mitis group’s Streptococcus species used three approaches, … gene
content is not correlated with core or gene consensus phylogenies. Gene content trees of mitis …

… entire genetic content of the Mitis group strains, … -gene sequencing approaches to assign
VGS strains to particular species (18). Through the use of a recently developed MLSA approach …

… mitis group bacteria and putative virulence genes profile across multiple streptococcal strains…
their genes of interest are potential virulence genes using a sequence homology approach. …

… To assess the utility of the genomic tools in resolving the genetic relatedness of S. mitis
isolates, our MLST and global clustering approaches were applied to carriage isolates obtained …

… virulence genes were considered to be the 231 genes … /231 virulence genes were present
in at least one mitis group isolate, … This approach may also inform future vaccine strategies for …

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