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SUBMITTER: Kwong JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5320595 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kwong Jason C JC Gonçalves da Silva Anders A Dyet Kristin K Williamson Deborah A DA Stinear Timothy P TP Howden Benjamin P BP Seemann Torsten T
Microbial genomics 20160825 8
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provides the highest resolution analysis for comparison of bacterial isolates in public health microbiology. However, although increasingly being used routinely for some pathogens such as <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> and <i>Salmonella enterica</i>, the use of WGS is still limited for other organisms, such as <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i>. Multi-antigen sequence typing (NG-MAST) is the most widely performed typing method for epidemiological surveillance of gonorrhoea ...[more]