Development and evaluation of a core genome multilocus typing scheme for whole-genome sequence-based typing of Acinetobacter baumannii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Higgins, Paul G ^a   Prior, Karola ^b   Harmsen, Dag ^b   Seifert, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACINETOBACTER NOSOCOMIALIS; ACINETOBACTER PITTII; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE GENOME MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; CALIBRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ALLELES; CALIBRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85020431381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179228     Document Type: Article

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