“…In recent years, many DNA-based genotyping techniques have been utilized to assist in delineating epidemiological relationships between various isolates (Kostman, Edlind, LiPuma, & Stull 1992;Millemann, Lesage-Descauses, Lafont, & Chaslus-Dancla 1996;Tsen, Hu, Lin, Hung, & Wang 2000), being that PCR-ribotyping and PFGE have been applied in many studies because the former is considered not expensive and easy to perform, while the latter is currently the "gold standard" of the typing methods (Cerro, Soto, & Mendoza, 2003;Gatto et al, 2006;Oliveira et al, 2009;Soto, Guerra, Del Cerro, González-Hevia, & Mendoza, 2001;Swaminathan, Barret, Hunter, & Tauxe, 2001) .…”