All species MLST databases and published schemes
MLST databases are hosted at the University of Oxford, UK; Imperial College, London, UK; the Environmental Resarch Institute, Cork, Ireland, and the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.
Order by: Organism | Profiles | Isolates
Chart shows databases with at least 1000 profiles or isolates.
* Data updated automatically: 2012-05-21.
| Organism | Website and link to database | Sequence types | Isolates | Applications to date | Selected references |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acinetobacter baumannii#1 | http://pubmlst.org/abaumannii/ | 385 * | 596 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | Bartual et al.
(2005)
J Clin Microbiol 43:4382-90. |
| Acinetobacter baumannii#2 | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Abaumannii.html | 178 * | 343 * | - | |
| Aeromonas spp. | http://pubmlst.org/aeromonas/ | 89 * | 99 * | Strain characterization | |
| Arcobacter spp. | http://pubmlst.org/arcobacter/ | 373 * | 593 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure | |
| Aspergillus fumigatus | http://pubmlst.org/afumigatus/ | 28 * | 22 * | Isolate characterisation | |
| Bacillus cereus | http://pubmlst.org/bcereus/ | 591 * | 1107 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | Priest et al.
(2004)
J Bacteriol 186:7959-70. |
| Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis | n/a | 10 | 35 | Population and evolutionary analyses. | |
| Bifidobacterium | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Bifidobacterium.html | 102 * | - | - | |
| Bordetella spp. | http://pubmlst.org/bordetella/ | 58 * | 140 * | - | |
| Borrelia burgdorferi | http://borrelia.mlst.net | 415 * | 1405 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses | |
| Brachyspira hyodysenteriae | http://pubmlst.org/bhyodysenteriae/ | 87 * | 244 * | Molecular epidemiology and population structure analyses. | La et al.
(2009)
Vet Microbiol 138:330-8. |
| Brachyspira intermedia | http://pubmlst.org/bintermedia/ | 75 * | 244 * | Molecular epidemiology and population structure analyses. | Phillips et al.
(2010)
Vet Microbiol 143:246-54. |
| Brachyspira pilosicoli | http://pubmlst.org/bhyodysenteriae/ | - | 244 * | Molecular epidemiology and population structure analyses. | |
| Brachyspira spp. | http://pubmlst.org/brachyspira/ | 36 * | 244 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Burkholderia cepacia complex | http://pubmlst.org/bcc/ | 712 * | 1153 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | Baldwin et al.
(2005)
J Clin Microbiol 43:4665-73. |
| Burkholderia pseudomallei | http://bpseudomallei.mlst.net | 940 * | 2783 * | Isolate characterisation and species identification. | |
| Campylobacter fetus | http://pubmlst.org/cfetus/ | 35 * | - | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | |
| Campylobacter helveticus | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
8 * | 227 * | - | |
| Campylobacter insulaenigrae | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
43 * | 227 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Campylobacter jejuni | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ | 5804 * | 18193 * | Epidemiological surveillance of food-borne infections, population structure analyses. | Dingle et al.
(2001)
J Clin Microbiol 39:14-23. |
| Campylobacter lari | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
18 * | 227 * | - | |
| Campylobacter upsaliensis | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
147 * | 227 * | - | |
| Candida albicans | http://calbicans.mlst.net | 2057 * | 2159 * | Isolate characterisation and identification of nosocomial outbreaks. | |
| Candida glabrata | http://cglabrata.mlst.net | 68 * | 212 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | |
| Candida krusei | http://pubmlst.org/ckrusei/ | 149 * | 192 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | Jacobsen et al.
(2007)
J Clin Microbiol 45:317-23. |
| Candida tropicalis | http://pubmlst.org/ctropicalis/ | 267 * | 401 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses | |
| Chlamydiales spp. | http://pubmlst.org/chlamydiales/ | 46 * | 133 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | Pannekoek et al.
(2008)
BMC Microbiol 8:42. |
| Clostridium botulinum | http://pubmlst.org/cbotulinum/ | 24 * | 73 * | Isolate characterisation and evolutionary analyses | |
| Clostridium difficile | http://pubmlst.org/cdifficile | 160 * | 1427 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | Griffiths et al.
(2010)
J Clin Microbiol 48:770-8. |
| Clostridium difficile#2 | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Cdifficile2.html | 65 * | 539 * | - | |
| Clostridium septicum | http://pubmlst.org/csepticum/ | 8 * | - | Isolate characterisation and evolutionary analyses | Neumann et al.
(2009)
Anaerobe 15:99-106. |
| Corynebacterium diphtheriae | http://pubmlst.org/cdiphtheriae/ | 233 * | - | - | |
| Cronobacter spp. | http://pubmlst.org/cronobacter/ | 123 * | 354 * | - | |
| Cryptococcus neoformans | http://cneoformans.mlst.net | 53 * | 261 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Enterococcus faecalis | http://efaecalis.mlst.net | 465 * | 1042 * | - | |
| Enterococcus faecium | http://efaecium.mlst.net | 725 * | 1993 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses. | |
| Escherichia coli#1 | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Ecoli | 2860 * | 4580 * | Examination of the evolution of virulence. | |
| Escherichia coli#2 | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/EColi.html | 563 * | 437 * | - | |
| Flavobacterium psychrophilum | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Flavopsy.html | 33 * | 50 * | - | |
| Haemophilus influenzae | http://haemophilus.mlst.net | 1146 * | 1992 * | Epidemiological surveillance. | |
| Haemophilus parasuis | http://pubmlst.org/hparasuis/ | 116 * | 130 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | |
| Helicobacter pylori | http://pubmlst.org/helicobacter/ | 2382 * | 1527 * | Tracking the patterns of human migration. | Wirth et al.
(2004)
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:4746-51. |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Kpneumoniae.html | 966 * | 1108 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses | |
| Lactobacillus casei | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Lcasei.html | 40 * | 53 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Lactobacillus salivarius | http://pubmlst.org/lsalivarius/ | 25 * | 33 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | Raftis et al.
(2011)
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:954-65. |
| Laribacter hongkongensis | http://mlstdb.hku.hk:14206/MLST_index.html | 97 | 146 | - | |
| Leptospira spp. | http://leptospira.mlst.net | 120 * | 279 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses | |
| Listeria monocytogenes | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Lmono.html | 557 * | 2481 * | - | |
| Mannheimia haemolytica | http://pubmlst.org/mhaemolytica/ | 36 * | 115 * | Isolate characterisation | |
| Moraxella catarrhalis | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Mcatarrhalis | 215 * | 335 * | - | |
| Mycoplasma agalactiae | http://pubmlst.org/magalactiae/ | 18 * | 104 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | McAuliffe et al.
(2011)
J Med Microbiol 60:803-11. |
| Neisseria spp. | http://pubmlst.org/neisseria/ | 9453 * | 19274 * | Epidemiological surveillance, post-vaccine studies, population and evolutionary analyses. | Maiden et al.
(1998)
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:3140-5. |
| Pantoea agglomerans | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Pantoea.html | 22 * | - | - | |
| Pasteurella multocida#1 | http://pubmlst.org/pmultocida_rirdc/ | 267 * | 538 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | Subaaharan et al.
(2010)
Vet Microbiol 141:354-61. |
| Pasteurella multocida#2 | http://pubmlst.org/pmultocida_multihost/ | 46 * | 125 * | Evolutionary analyses between isolates from different host species | |
| Pencillium marneffei | http://mlstdb.hku.hk:14206/MLST_index.html | 35 | 44 | - | |
| Plesiomonas shigelloides | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Pshigelloides.html | 76 * | 77 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Porphyromonas gingivalis | http://pubmlst.org/pgingivalis/ | 138 * | 144 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | Enersen et al.
(2006)
J Clin Microbiol 44:35-41. |
| Propionibacterium acnes | http://pubmlst.org/pacnes/ | 62 * | 6 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | |
| Propionibacterium freudenreichii | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Propio-freudenreichii.html | 46 * | 113 * | - | |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | http://pubmlst.org/paeruginosa/ | 1195 * | 1644 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | Curran et al.
(2004)
J Clin Microbiol 42:5644-9. |
| Salmonella enterica | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Senterica | 1556 * | 5633 * | - | |
| Salmonella typhi | n/a | 4 | 26 | Estimation of age and time of emergence of S. typhi. | |
| Sinorhizobium spp | http://pubmlst.org/sinorhizobium/ | 136 * | 550 * | - | |
| Staphylococcus aureus | http://saureus.mlst.net | 2197 * | 4344 * | Identification of predominant epidemic MRSA isolates, species evolution, population analyses. | |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | http://sepidermidis.mlst.net | 445 * | 584 * | - | |
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | http://pubmlst.org/smaltophilia/ | 56 * | 72 * | - | |
| Streptococcus agalactiae | http://pubmlst.org/sagalactiae/ | 584 * | 693 * | Identification of clones associated with neonatal infections. | Jones et al.
(2003)
J Clin Microbiol 41:2530-6. |
| Streptococcus oralis | http://pubmlst.org/soralis/ | 77 * | 252 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | Do et al.
(2009)
Microbiology 155:2593-602. |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | http://spneumoniae.mlst.net | 8220 * | 18716 * | Identification of antibiotic resistant clones, epidemiological surveillance, population analyses. | Enright et al.
(1998)
Microbiology 144 ( Pt 11):3049-60. |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | http://spyogenes.mlst.net | 593 * | 2333 * | Identification of relationships between emm-type and clonal complex. | |
| Streptococcus suis | http://ssuis.mlst.net | 302 * | 896 * | - | |
| Streptococcus thermophilus | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/strepto-thermophilus.html | 116 * | - | - | |
| Streptococcus uberis | http://pubmlst.org/suberis/ | 475 * | 988 * | - | Coffey et al.
(2006)
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1420-8. |
| Streptococcus zooepidemicus | http://pubmlst.org/szooepidemicus/ | 284 * | 1337 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Streptomyces spp | http://pubmlst.org/streptomyces/ | 135 * | 150 * | Species identification | |
| Vibrio parahaemolyticus | http://pubmlst.org/vparahaemolyticus/ | 479 * | 983 * | - | |
| Vibrio tapetis | http://pubmlst.org/vtapetis/ | 10 * | 30 * | Isolate characterisation and populaton structure | |
| Vibrio vulnificus | http://pubmlst.org/vvulnificus/ | 85 * | 175 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses. | Bisharat et al.
(2005)
Emerg Infect Dis 11:30-5. |
| Wolbachia | http://pubmlst.org/wolbachia/ | 305 * | 506 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | |
| Xylella fastidiosa | http://pubmlst.org/xfastidiosa/ | 27 * | 141 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure. | |
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Ypseudotuberculosis | 96 * | 664 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | |
| Yersinia ruckeri | http://pubmlst.org/yruckeri/ | 30 * | 103 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. |