Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Local Transmission Patterns of Mycobacterium bovis in Sympatric Cattle and Badger Populations

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Biek, Roman ^a   O'Hare, Anthony ^a   Wright, David ^b,c   Mallon, Tom ^b   McCormick, Carl ^b   Orton, Richard J ^a   McDowell, Stanley ^b   Trewby, Hannah ^a   Skuce, Robin A ^b   Kao, Rowland R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; EXPOSURE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; HERD; HISTOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULIN TEST; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 84870841492     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003008     Document Type: Article

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