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: 2013-05-21.
| Organism | Website and link to database | Sequence types | Isolates | Applications to date | Selected references |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Achromobacter spp. | http://pubmlst.org/achromobacter | 165 * | 487 * | Isolate characterisation | Spilker et al.
(2012)
J Clin Microbiol 50:3010-5. |
| Acinetobacter baumannii#1 | http://pubmlst.org/abaumannii/ | 559 * | 675 * | 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 | 298 * | 748 * | - | |
| Aeromonas spp. | http://pubmlst.org/aeromonas/ | 252 * | 272 * | Strain characterization | |
| Arcobacter spp. | http://pubmlst.org/arcobacter/ | 391 * | 608 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure | |
| Aspergillus fumigatus | http://pubmlst.org/afumigatus/ | 28 * | 22 * | Isolate characterisation | |
| Bacillus cereus | http://pubmlst.org/bcereus/ | 753 * | 1382 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | Priest et al.
(2004)
J Bacteriol 186:7959-70. |
| Bacillus licheniformis | http://pubmlst.org/blicheniformis/ | 27 * | 53 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | Madslien et al.
(2012)
BMC Microbiol 12:230. |
| 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/ | 61 * | 149 * | - | |
| Borrelia burgdorferi | http://borrelia.mlst.net | 441 * | 1455 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses | |
| Brachyspira hyodysenteriae | http://pubmlst.org/brachyspira/ | 96 * | 262 * | Molecular epidemiology and population structure analyses. | La et al.
(2009)
Vet Microbiol 138:330-8. |
| Brachyspira intermedia | http://pubmlst.org/brachyspira/ | 75 * | 262 * | Molecular epidemiology and population structure analyses. | Phillips et al.
(2010)
Vet Microbiol 143:246-54. |
| Brachyspira spp. | http://pubmlst.org/brachyspira/ | 36 * | 262 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Burkholderia cepacia complex | http://pubmlst.org/bcc/ | 784 * | 1326 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | Baldwin et al.
(2005)
J Clin Microbiol 43:4665-73. |
| Burkholderia pseudomallei | http://bpseudomallei.mlst.net | 1018 * | 3156 * | Isolate characterisation and species identification. | |
| Campylobacter concisus/curvus | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
77 * | 227 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Campylobacter fetus | http://pubmlst.org/cfetus/ | 44 * | - | 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 hyointestinalis | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
109 * | 227 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| 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/ | 6599 * | 24302 * | Epidemiological surveillance of food-borne infections, population structure analyses. | Dingle et al.
(2001)
J Clin Microbiol 39:14-23. |
| Campylobacter lanienae | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
69 * | 227 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| 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 sputorum | http://pubmlst.org/campylobacter/ (Isolate database contains other non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter species and the number of isolates reported reflect all of these together) |
16 * | 227 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| 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 | 2086 * | 2215 * | 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/ | 152 * | 198 * | 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/ | 68 * | 283 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | Pannekoek et al.
(2008)
BMC Microbiol 8:42. |
| Clostridium botulinum | http://pubmlst.org/cbotulinum/ | 28 * | 139 * | Isolate characterisation and evolutionary analyses | |
| Clostridium difficile | http://pubmlst.org/cdifficile | 191 * | 1445 * | 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/ | 259 * | - | - | |
| Cronobacter spp. | http://pubmlst.org/cronobacter/ | 196 * | 532 * | - | |
| Cryptococcus neoformans | http://cneoformans.mlst.net | 53 * | 261 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Enterococcus faecalis | http://efaecalis.mlst.net | 521 * | 1136 * | - | |
| Enterococcus faecium | http://efaecium.mlst.net | 816 * | 2234 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses. | |
| Escherichia coli#1 | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Ecoli | 3684 * | 5627 * | Examination of the evolution of virulence. | |
| Escherichia coli#2 | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/EColi.html | 597 * | 449 * | - | |
| Flavobacterium psychrophilum | http://pubmlst.org/fpsychrophilum/ | 99 * | 436 * | Strain characterization and population structure analysis | |
| Haemophilus influenzae | http://haemophilus.mlst.net | 1268 * | 2125 * | Epidemiological surveillance. | |
| Haemophilus parasuis | http://pubmlst.org/hparasuis/ | 131 * | 146 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | |
| Helicobacter cinaedi | http://pubmlst.org/hcinaedi | 17 * | 68 * | Molecular epidemiology and population structure analysis | Rimbara et al.
(2012)
J Clin Microbiol 50:2553-60. |
| Helicobacter pylori | http://pubmlst.org/helicobacter/ | 2560 * | 1656 * | Tracking the patterns of human migration. | Wirth et al.
(2004)
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:4746-51. |
| Helicobacter suis | http://pubmlst.org/hsuis/ | 25 * | 29 * | Strain characterization and population structure analysis | Liang et al.
(2013)
J Clin Microbiol 51:920-6. |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Kpneumoniae.html | 1209 * | 1574 * | 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 | 190 * | 327 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses | |
| Listeria monocytogenes | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/Lmono.html | 615 * | 2581 * | - | |
| Mannheimia haemolytica | http://pubmlst.org/mhaemolytica/ | 36 * | 115 * | Isolate characterisation | |
| Moraxella catarrhalis | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Mcatarrhalis | 219 * | 339 * | - | |
| Mycobacterium abscessus | http://pubmlst.org/mabscessus/ | 26 * | - | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | |
| Mycobacterium massiliense | http://pubmlst.org/mabscessus/ | 12 * | - | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | |
| 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/ | 10219 * | 21604 * | 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/ | 276 * | 562 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | Subaaharan et al.
(2010)
Vet Microbiol 141:354-61. |
| Pasteurella multocida#2 | http://pubmlst.org/pmultocida/ | 60 * | 125 * | Evolutionary analyses between isolates from different host species | |
| Pediococcus pentosaceus | http://pubmlst.org/ppentosaceus/ | 17 * | 31 * | Strain characterization and population structure analysis | |
| 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/ | 1564 * | 2096 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | Curran et al.
(2004)
J Clin Microbiol 42:5644-9. |
| Salmonella enterica | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Senterica | 1644 * | 6009 * | - | |
| 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 | 2508 * | 4838 * | Identification of predominant epidemic MRSA isolates, species evolution, population analyses. | |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | http://sepidermidis.mlst.net | 488 * | 750 * | - | |
| Staphylococcus pseudintermedius | http://pubmlst.org/spseudintermedius/ | 251 * | 263 * | Strain characterization and population structure analysis | Solyman et al.
(2013)
J Clin Microbiol 51:306-10. |
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | http://pubmlst.org/smaltophilia/ | 96 * | 131 * | - | |
| Streptococcus agalactiae | http://pubmlst.org/sagalactiae/ | 643 * | 866 * | Identification of clones associated with neonatal infections. | Jones et al.
(2003)
J Clin Microbiol 41:2530-6. |
| Streptococcus canis | http://pubmlst.org/scanis/ | 25 * | 90 * | Strain characterization and population structure analysis | Pinho et al.
(2013)
J Clin Microbiol 51:1099-109. |
| Streptococcus dysgalactiae equisimilis | http://sdse.mlst.net/ | 80 * | 178 * | - | |
| Streptococcus oralis | http://pubmlst.org/soralis/ | 77 * | 574 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | Do et al.
(2009)
Microbiology 155:2593-602. |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | http://spneumoniae.mlst.net | 8981 * | 20850 * | 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 | 625 * | 2343 * | Identification of relationships between emm-type and clonal complex. | |
| Streptococcus suis | http://ssuis.mlst.net | 368 * | 1106 * | - | |
| Streptococcus thermophilus | http://www.pasteur.fr/ mlst/strepto-thermophilus.html | 116 * | - | - | |
| Streptococcus uberis | http://pubmlst.org/suberis/ | 529 * | 988 * | - | Coffey et al.
(2006)
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1420-8. |
| Streptococcus zooepidemicus | http://pubmlst.org/szooepidemicus/ | 308 * | 1260 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analysis | |
| Streptomyces spp | http://pubmlst.org/streptomyces/ | 135 * | 150 * | Species identification | |
| Vibrio parahaemolyticus | http://pubmlst.org/vparahaemolyticus/ | 792 * | 1257 * | - | |
| Vibrio tapetis | http://pubmlst.org/vtapetis/ | 10 * | 30 * | Isolate characterisation and populaton structure | |
| Vibrio vulnificus | http://pubmlst.org/vvulnificus/ | 144 * | 241 * | Isolate characterisation and epidemiological analyses. | Bisharat et al.
(2005)
Emerg Infect Dis 11:30-5. |
| Wolbachia | http://pubmlst.org/wolbachia/ | 370 * | 595 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure analyses | |
| Xylella fastidiosa | http://pubmlst.org/xfastidiosa/ | 52 * | 250 * | Isolate characterisation and population structure. | |
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | http://mlst.ucc.ie/mlst/dbs/Ypseudotuberculosis | 122 * | 690 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | |
| Yersinia ruckeri | http://pubmlst.org/yruckeri/ | 30 * | 103 * | Population and evolutionary analyses. | |
| Yersinia spp. | http://pubmlst.org/yersinia/ | 108 * | 170 * | Speciation and isolate characterisation |