Article
Comparative genomics of European avian pathogenic E. Coli (APEC).
BMC genomics - 22 Nov 2016
Cordoni Guido, Woodward Martin J, Wu Huihai, Alanazi Mishaal, Wallis Tim, La Ragione Roberto M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) causes colibacillosis, which results in significant economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. However, the diversity between isolates remains poorly understood. Here, a total of 272 APEC isolates collected from the United Kingdom (UK), Italy and Germany were characterised using multiplex polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) targeting 22 equally weighted...
Topics
- Animals
- Cluster Analysis
- Computational Biology
- Data Mining
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Genome, Bacterial
- Genomics
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Machine Learning
- Multilocus Sequence Typing
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Poultry Diseases
- Serotyping
- Virulence Factors