Around the World in 1,475 Salmonella Geo-serotypes

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Gossner, Céline M. ; Le Hello, Simon ; de Jong, Birgitta ; Rolfhamre, Per ; Faensen, Daniel ; Weill, François-Xavier ; Giesecke, Johan
• Description:
  Most | serotypes are named after geographic locations; a few others have surprisingly humorous origins.|It’s easy to remember | serotypes names, isn’t it? Surely, this is because the naming system of | serotypes is by far the most scientist friendly. Traditionally, most | serotypes have been named after geographic locations. We decided to explore the geographic locations to which | serotypes refer and describe some unexpected twists in the naming scheme. We found that 93% (n = 1,475) of the 1,585 serotypes could be categorized as geo-serotypes; that is, the name refers to a geographic location. The 3 countries with the most geo-serotypes are Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Other serotype names refer to the name of a person, animal, tribe, or food item or are a composite of symptoms and host. The | serotypes naming scheme has had a valuable effect on public health microbiology, and in the current era of fast development of whole-genome sequencing, it should remain a reference.
• Subjects:
  Another Dimension Around The World In 1,475 Salmonella Geo-serotypes Bacteria Enteric Infections Geo-serotype Geographic Locations Naming Salmonellae Salmonella Serotypes Serovars White-Kauffmann-Le Minor Scheme

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 22(7):1298-1302
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4918176
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1053a9f3b24c5ad19be26a5185f4bd3f322edf68bd62c7d07b632dbcd185bb5f
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/77314/cdc_77314_DS1.pdf
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