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Prospective Whole-Genome Sequencing Enhances National Surveillance of Listeria monocytogenes.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2016
Kwong Jason C, Mercoulia Karolina, Tomita Takehiro, Easton Marion, Li Hua Y, Bulach Dieter M, Stinear Timothy P, Seemann Torsten, Howden Benjamin P
Abstract excerpt
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has emerged as a powerful tool for comparing bacterial isolates in outbreak detection and investigation. Here we demonstrate that WGS performed prospectively for national epidemiologic surveillance of Listeria monocytogenes has the capacity to be superior to our current approaches using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multilocus sequence typing (MLST), multilocus...
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