Resolution of a meningococcal disease outbreak from whole-genome sequence data with rapid web-based analysis methods

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3046-3053

  Jolley, Keith A ^a   Hill, Dorothea M C ^a   Bratcher, Holly B ^a   Harrison, Odile B ^a   Feavers, Ian M ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^c   Maiden, Martin C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Bacteriology   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIGEN GENE SEQUENCE TYPING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL ISOLATE GENOME SEQUENCE DATABASE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 84865154653     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01312-12     Document Type: Article

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