“…This PCR-based method is being increasingly used to type this pathogen, especially during mastitis outbreaks ( Fitzgerald et al, 1997 , Gurjar et al, 2012 , Morandi et al, 2010 , Myllys et al, 1997 , Pereira et al, 2002 , Reinoso et al, 2004 , Wang et al, 2015 ). When compared to other typing methods, RAPD has been found to be more discriminating than coa -RFLP ( Morandi et al, 2010 ), MLEE, and ribotyping ( Fitzgerald et al, 1997 ), but less discriminating than other tested approaches, such as spa typing and microarrays ( Kosecka-Strojek et al, 2016 ), and MLVA ( Kosecka-Strojek et al, 2016 , Morandi et al, 2010 ). This procedure’s discriminatory power highly depends on the number of primers, so it can be improved by applying more primers ( Myllys et al, 1997 , Reinoso et al, 2004 ).…”