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Lineage-specific evolution and gene flow in Listeria monocytogenes are independent of bacteriophages.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2020
Zamudio Roxana, Haigh Richard D, Ralph Joseph D, De Ste Croix Megan, Tasara Taurai, Zurfluh Katrin, Kwun Min Jung, Millard Andrew D, Bentley Stephen D, Croucher Nicholas J, Stephan Roger, Oggioni Marco R
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Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen causing systemic infection with high mortality. To allow efficient tracking of outbreaks a clear definition of the genomic signature of a cluster of related isolates is required, but lineage-specific characteristics call for a more detailed understanding of evolution. In our work, we used core genome MLST (cgMLST) to identify new outbreaks combined to core genome SNP...
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