Pathogen typing in the genomics era: MLST and the future of molecular epidemiology

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-53

  Pérez Losada, Marcos ^a   Cabezas, Patricia ^b,c   Castro Nallar, Eduardo ^b   Crandall, Keith A ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Multi locus sequence typing (MLST); Next generation sequence data; Pathogen evolution

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSAFETY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAXONOMY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCE TYPING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BAYES THEOREM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84875255868     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.01.009     Document Type: Review

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