MLST (Pasteur scheme) was developed by:

• Jaureguy F, Landraud L, Passet V, Diancourt L, Frapy E, Guigon G, Carbonnelle E, Lortholary O, Clermont O, Denamur E, Picard B, Nassif X, Brisse S. 2008. Phylogenetic and genomic diversity of human bacteremic Escherichia coli strains. BMC Genomics 9:560 PMID 19036134