Each unique pattern in the database is represented by a 10-character code as follows: XXXYYY.0000 The first three characters in the code represent the bacterial pathogen, the next three characters denote the enzyme used for DNA restriction, and the last four characters represent thepattern designation. For example, in the pattern designation EXHA26.0026, EXH represents E. coli O157:H7, A26 represents restriction endonuclease AvrII, and 0026 is the pattern number. Because the pattern numbers are assigned sequentially to unique patterns, no evolutionary, phylogenetic,or clonal relationships should be implied from the order of pattern numbers. link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631779/pdf/11384513.pdf
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
National (USA) PFGE pattern
property
ID = Identifier
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
Isolate
scale
Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method
Additional Names
short name
ID; Ident; Identifier; Infectious Disease; InfectiousDisease; Islt; Isol; Microbiology; Nat (USA) PFGE pattern; Nominal; PH; Point in time; Public Health; PublicHealth; Random