An extended genotyping framework for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, the cause of human typhoid

• Main Authors: Vanessa K. Wong, Stephen Baker, Thomas R. Connor, Derek Pickard, Andrew J. Page, Jayshree Dave, Niamh Murphy, Richard Holliman, Armine Sefton, Michael Millar, Zoe A. Dyson, Gordon Dougan, Kathryn E. Holt, Julian Parkhill, Robert A. Kingsley, Nicholas R. Thomson, Jacqueline A. Keane, James Hadfield, Elizabeth J. Klemm, Simon R. Harris, Amy K. Cain, Samuel Kariuki, Chinyere Okoro, Calman A. MacLennan, Nga Tran Vu Thieu, Duy Pham Thanh, Corinne Thompson, Christiane Dolecek, James I. Campbell, Guy Thwaites, Jeremy Farrar, Paul N. Newton, David Dance, Paul Turner, E. Kim Mulholland, Jane Hawkey, David J. Edwards, Nicholas A. Feasey, François Xavier Weill, Simon Le Hello, Peter J. Hart, Robert F. Breiman, Robert S. Onsare, Conall H. Watson, W. John Edmunds, Melita A. Gordon, Robert S. Heyderman, Chisomo Msefula, Jan Jacobs, Octavie Lunguya, Jose A. Chabalgoity, Mike Kama, Kylie Jenkins, Shanta Dutta, Florian Marks, Josefina Campos, Stephen Obaro, Karen H. Keddy, Anthony M. Smith, Christopher M. Parry, Abhilasha Karkey, Sabina Dongol, Buddha Basnyat, Amit Arjyal, Muriel Dufour, Don Bandaranayake
• Other Authors: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Chemistry
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/43228
• Institution: Mahidol University

© The Author(s) 2016. The population of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi), the causative agent of typhoid fever, exhibits limited DNA sequence variation, which complicates efforts to rationally discriminate individual isolates. Here we utilize data from whole-genome sequences (WGS) of nea...