High interlaboratory reproducibility and accuracy of next-generation-sequencing-based bacterial genotyping in a ring trial

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 908-913

  Mellmann, Alexander ^a   Andersen, Paal Skytt ^b   Bletz, Stefan ^a   Friedrich, Alexander W ^c   Kohl, Thomas A ^d,e   Lilje, Berit ^b   Niemann, Stefan ^d,e   Prior, Karola ^a   Rossen, John W ^c   Harmsen, Dag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^e German Center for Infection Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

CgMLST; Interlaboratory reproducibility; Molecular subtyping; Ring trial; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 85014313049     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02242-16     Document Type: Article

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