Species-wide whole genome sequencing reveals historical global spread and recent local persistence in Shigella flexneri

Shigella flexneri is the most common cause of bacterial dysentery in low-income countries. Despite this, S. flexneri remains largely unexplored from a genomic standpoint and is still described using a vocabulary based on serotyping reactions developed over half-a-century ago. Here we combine whole g...

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Autores principales: Connor, Thomas R, Barker, Clare R, Baker, Kate S, Weill, François-Xavier, Talukder, Kaisar Ali, Smith, Anthony M, Baker, Stephen, Gouali, Malika, Pham Thanh, Duy, Jahan Azmi, Ishrat, Dias da Silveira, Wanderley, Semmler, Torsten, Wieler, Lothar H, Jenkins, Claire, Cravioto, Alejandro, Faruque, Shah M, Parkhill, Julian, Wook Kim, Dong, Keddy, Karen H, Thomson, Nicholas R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
Materias:
Epidemiology and Global Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26238191
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07335

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