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Alternative Title:
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.12.003
Personal Author:
Kingry, Luke C. ; Rowe, Lori A. ; Respicio-Kingry, Laurel B. ; Beard, Charles B. ; Schriefer, Martin E. ; ... More +
Kingry, Luke C. ; Rowe, Lori A. ; Respicio-Kingry, Laurel B. ; Beard, Charles B. ; Schriefer, Martin E. ; Petersen, Jeannine M. Less -
Description:
Human plague is a severe and often fatal zoonotic disease caused by Yersinia pestis. For public health investigations of human cases, nonintensive whole genome molecular typing tools, capable of defining epidemiologic relationships, are advantageous. Whole genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST) is a recently developed methodology that simplifies genomic analyses by transforming millions of base pairs of sequence into character data for each gene. We sequenced 13 US Y. pestis isolates with known epidemiologic relationships. Sequences were assembled de novo, and multilocus sequence typing alleles were assigned by comparison against 3979 open reading frames from the reference strain CO92. Allele-based cluster analysis accurately grouped the 13 isolates, as well as 9 publicly available Y. pestis isolates, by their epidemiologic relationships. Our findings indicate wgMLST is a simplified, sensitive, and scalable tool for epidemiologic analysis of Y. pestis strains.
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Animals
Genome, Bacterial
Humans
Molecular Epidemiology
Multilocus Sequence Typing

Source:
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 84(4):275-280
Pubmed ID:
26778487
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4829196
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:3be1320def070cf096c106873b12bc9fa542219844375b39538583672a5f6a91
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