Deriving group a streptococcus typing information from short-read whole-genome sequencing data

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1871-1876

  Athey, Taryn B T ^a   Teatero, Sarah ^a   Li, Aimin ^a   Marchand Austin, Alex ^a,b   Beall, Bernard W ^c   Fittipaldia, Nahuel ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; TROPISM; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901675732     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00029-14     Document Type: Article

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