Design and application of a core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for investigation of Legionnaires’ disease incidents

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2015, Pages

  Moran Gilad, J ^a,b   Prior, K ^c   Yakunin, E ^a   Harrison, T G ^d   Underwood, A ^d   Lazarovitch, T ^e   Valinsky, L ^a   Luck C ^f   Krux, F ^c   Agmon, V ^a   Grotto, I ^a,b   Harmsen, D ^c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORE GENOME MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84937722829     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.28.21186     Document Type: Article

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