Rapid and consistent genetic clustering of environmental Legionella pneumophila isolates using accessible single-step WGS analysis tools

• Hanno Schmidt ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hanno.schmidt@uni-mainz.de

  Affiliations Sequencing Consortium, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Institute of Virology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8915-891X

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• Sven-Ernö Bikár,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Sequencing Consortium, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, StarSEQ GmbH, Mainz, Germany

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• Bettina Lieb,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation StarSEQ GmbH, Mainz, Germany

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• Daniela Lotz,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Infection Prevention, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Tobias Brand,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Infection Prevention, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Moritz Brandstetter,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Thomas Hankeln,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sequencing Consortium, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Institute of Organismal and Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• André Michel,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sequencing Consortium, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Health Care Department, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Bodo Plachter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bodo Plachter, Wolfgang Kohnen

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sequencing Consortium, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Institute of Virology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Wolfgang Kohnen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bodo Plachter, Wolfgang Kohnen

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliations Sequencing Consortium, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Department of Hygiene and Infection Prevention, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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