Bacterial strain typing, or identifying bacteria at the strain level, is particularly important for
diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiological surveillance of bacterial infections. This is …

Genomic bacterial strain typing has facilitated a paradigm shift in clinical and molecular
epidemiology. The increased resolution that these new techniques provide, along with …

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable sequence-based
method for identifying clonal relationships among bacteria. Today, in the whole-genome era …

Currently, genetic typing of microorganisms is widely used in several major fields of
microbiological research. Taxonomy, research aimed at elucidation of evolutionary …

Nucleotide sequence-based methods for bacterial typing (multilocus sequence typing;
MLST) allow rapid and global comparisons between results from different laboratories …

Abstract Next-generation sequencing (NGS), also known as high-throughput sequencing, is
changing the field of microbial genomics research. NGS allows for a more comprehensive …

The class Alphaproteobacteria is comprised of a diverse assemblage of Gram-negative
bacteria that includes organisms of varying morphologies, physiologies and habitat …

The identification and subtyping of pathogenic microorganisms is an essential component of
modern public health infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response. Timely and …

Microbial typing is often employed to determine the source and routes of infections, confirm
or rule out outbreaks, trace cross-transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens …

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