Multilocus sequence typing as a replacement for serotyping in Salmonella enterica.

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Published in PLoS Pathog on June 21, 2012

Authors

Mark Achtman1, John Wain, François-Xavier Weill, Satheesh Nair, Zhemin Zhou, Vartul Sangal, Mary G Krauland, James L Hale, Heather Harbottle, Alexandra Uesbeck, Gordon Dougan, Lee H Harrison, Sylvain Brisse, S. Enterica MLST Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. m.achtman@ucc.ie

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Changes in Neisseria meningitidis disease epidemiology in the United States, 1998-2007: implications for prevention of meningococcal disease. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 3.61

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Genome-wide generation and systematic phenotyping of knockout mice reveals new roles for many genes. Cell (2013) 3.47

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The complete genome sequence and comparative genome analysis of the high pathogenicity Yersinia enterocolitica strain 8081. PLoS Genet (2006) 3.33

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A recalibrated molecular clock and independent origins for the cholera pandemic clones. PLoS One (2008) 3.16

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A strand-specific RNA-Seq analysis of the transcriptome of the typhoid bacillus Salmonella typhi. PLoS Genet (2009) 2.87

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A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic. Genome Res (2013) 2.59

Increasing burden of invasive group B streptococcal disease in nonpregnant adults, 1990-2007. Clin Infect Dis (2009) 2.56

Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for investigation of Clostridium difficile transmission in Hospitals. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 2.52

Genomic sequencing reveals regulatory mutations and recombinational events in the widely used MC4100 lineage of Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol (2009) 2.51

Phylogenetic and genomic diversity of human bacteremic Escherichia coli strains. BMC Genomics (2008) 2.51

Composition, acquisition, and distribution of the Vi exopolysaccharide-encoding Salmonella enterica pathogenicity island SPI-7. J Bacteriol (2003) 2.50