Fighting outbreaks with bacterial genomics: Case review and workflow proposal

Public Health Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 341-351

  Cheung, M K ^a   Kwan, H S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Epidemiology; Next generation; NGS; Outbreak genomics; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CADMIUM; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANADA; CHOLERA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O104:H4; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOMICS; GERMANY; GOLD STANDARD; HAITI; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEAT; MEDICAL DEVICE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OUTBREAK GENOMICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; WORKFLOW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84870815005     PISSN: 16624246     EISSN: 16628063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342770     Document Type: Review

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