Recent advances in understanding enteric pathogenic Escherichia coli

MA Croxen, RJ Law, R Scholz… - Clinical microbiology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although Escherichia coli can be an innocuous resident of the gastrointestinal tract, it also
has the pathogenic capacity to cause significant diarrheal and extraintestinal diseases …

MLST revisited: the gene-by-gene approach to bacterial genomics

MCJ Maiden, MJJ Van Rensburg, JE Bray… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Multilocus sequence ty** (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable sequence-based
method for identifying clonal relationships among bacteria. Today, in the whole-genome era …

A robust framework for microbial archaeology

C Warinner, A Herbig, A Mann… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Microbial archaeology is flourishing in the era of high-throughput sequencing, revealing the
agents behind devastating historical plagues, identifying the cryptic movements of …

Cronobacter spp. as emerging causes of healthcare-associated infection

O Holý, S Forsythe - Journal of Hospital Infection, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Until recently, members of the Cronobacter genus (formerly known as
Enterobacter sakazakii) were a relatively unknown cause of nosocomial infections …

BacWGSTdb, a database for genoty** and source tracking bacterial pathogens

Z Ruan, Y Feng - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Whole genome sequencing has become one of the routine methods in molecular
epidemiological practice. In this study, we present BacWGSTdb (http://bacdb …

Development and evaluation of a core genome multilocus ty** scheme for whole-genome sequence-based ty** of Acinetobacter baumannii

PG Higgins, K Prior, D Harmsen, H Seifert - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We have employed whole genome sequencing to define and evaluate a core genome
multilocus sequence ty** (cgMLST) scheme for Acinetobacter baumannii. To define a core …

Food-Borne Vibrio parahaemolyticus in China: Prevalence, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Genetic Characterization

Y Li, T ** from metagenomic samples
M Zolfo, A Tett, O Jousson, C Donati… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomic characterization of microbial communities has the potential to become a tool
to identify pathogens in human samples. However, software tools able to extract strain-level …