Species-wide whole genome sequencing reveals historical global spread and recent local persistence in Shigella flexneri

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Volumn 4, Issue AUGUST2015, 2015, Pages

  Connor, Thomas R ^a,b   Barker, Clare R ^a   Baker, Kate S ^b   Weill, Francois Xavier ^c   Talukder, Kaisar Ali ^d   Smith, Anthony M ^e   Baker, Stephen ^f,g,h   Gouali, Malika ^c   Thanh, Duy Pham ^f,g,h   Azmi, Ishrat Jahan ^d   da Silveira, Wanderley Dias ⁱ   Semmler, Torsten ^j,k   Wieler, Lothar H ^j,k   Jenkins, Claire ^l   Cravioto, Alejandro ^m   Faruque, Shah M ^d   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Kim, Dong Wook ⁿ   Keddy, Karen H ^e   Thomson, Nicholas R ^b,h  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^j FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^k ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^l PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^m Global Eval uative Sciences Inc   (United States)

ⁿ Hanyang University   (South Korea)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROGROUP; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84941299795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07335     Document Type: Article

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