Official websites use .gov
A
.gov website belongs to an official
government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you've safely
connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive
information only on official, secure websites.
The diagram demonstrates patterns of descent with lines linking the ancestral or founder strain (blue) and their descendents strain (black) for each clonal complex. The number represents the sequence type (ST) of each strain.
