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Whole-Genome Sequencing of Recent Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Germany Reveals Population Structure and Disease Clusters.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2018
Halbedel Sven, Prager Rita, Fuchs Stephan, Trost Eva, Werner Guido, Flieger Antje
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Listeria monocytogenes causes foodborne outbreaks with high mortality. For improvement of outbreak cluster detection, the German consiliary laboratory for listeriosis implemented whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in 2015. A total of 424 human L. monocytogenes isolates collected in 2007 to 2017 were subjected to WGS and core-genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST). cgMLST grouped the isolates into 38 complexes,...
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