Utility of whole-genome sequencing of Escherichia coli o157 for outbreak detection and epidemiological surveillance

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3565-3573

  Holmes, Anne ^a   Allison, Lesley ^a   Ward, Melissa ^b   Dallman, Timothy J ^c   Clark, Richard ^b   Fawkes, Angie ^b   Murphy, Lee ^b   Hanson, Mary ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; SCOTLAND; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BACTERIAL DNA; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCOTLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA TOXINS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84945193159     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01066-15     Document Type: Article

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