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SUBMITTER: Halbedel S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5971532 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20180525 6
<i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> causes foodborne outbreaks with high mortality. For improvement of outbreak cluster detection, the German consiliary laboratory for listeriosis implemented whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in 2015. A total of 424 human <i>L. monocytogenes</i> isolates collected in 2007 to 2017 were subjected to WGS and core-genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST). cgMLST grouped the isolates into 38 complexes, reflecting 4 known and 34 unknown disease clusters. Most of these complex ...[more]