Defining and evaluating a core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for whole-genome sequence-based typing of listeria monocytogenes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2869-2876

  Ruppitsch, Werner ^a   Pietzka, Ariane ^a   Prior, Karola ^b   Bletz, Stefan ^b   Fernandez, Haizpea Lasa ^a   Allerberger, Franz ^a   Harmsen, Dag ^b   Mellmann, Alexander ^b  

^a AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FOOD CONTROL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

ANIMALS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING;

EID: 84940043454     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01193-15     Document Type: Article

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