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'Epidemiology of L egionella: Genome-bAsed Typing' (el_gato) - a new bioinformatic tool for identifying sequence-based types of Legionella pneumophila from whole-genome sequencing data.
Microbial genomics - 1 Sept 2026
Collins Alan J, Mashruwala Dev, Chivukula Vasanta, Kozak-Muiznieks Natalia A, Rishishwar Lavanya, Norris Emily T, Willby Melisa J, Hamlin Jennafer A P, Overholt Will A
Abstract excerpt
Sequence-based typing (SBT) via Sanger sequencing has been the standard for describing Legionella pneumophila relatedness for two decades. SBT involves sequencing seven loci, identifying alleles using the United Kingdom Health Security Agency database and inferring the corresponding sequence type (ST). While similar SBT approaches for other organisms can be easily adapted to whole-genome sequencing (WGS), L....
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- Legionella pneumophila
- Whole Genome Sequencing
- Computational Biology
- Genome, Bacterial
- Software