Are American children and adolescents of low socioeconomic status at increased risk of obesity?
Complex patterns in the association between SES and overweight exist. Efforts solely targeting reductions in income disparities probably cannot effectively reduce racial disparities in obesity.
MLVA is a suitable method to assign isolates of E. faecium into distinct clonal complexes. To investigate outbreaks the current MLVA typing scheme for E. faecium does not discriminate enough and cannot be recommended as a standard superior to PFGE.