Genomic insights from whole genome sequencing of four clonal outbreak Campylobacter jejuni assessed within the global C. jejuni population

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Clark, Clifford G ^a   Berry, Chrystal ^a   Walker, Matthew ^a   Petkau, Aaron ^b   Barker, Dillon O R ^b,c   Guan, Cai ^a   Reimer, Aleisha ^a   Taboada, Eduardo N ^b,c  

^a Public Health Agency of Canada   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Campylobacter; Chemotaxis proteins; Core genome MLST; Genomic inversions; Phylogenetic analysis; Transducer like proteins; Whole genome sequence

Indexed keywords

AAS GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CJ0143 GENE; CJ0144 GENE; CJ0261C GENE; CJ0262C GENE; CJ0263 GENE; CJ1562 GENE; CJ1563 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORFA GENE; ORFB GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE VARIANT; TLP12 GENE; TLP3 GENE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; PROPHAGE; VIROLOGY;

CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CANADA; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85001124071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3340-8     Document Type: Article

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