Multilocus Sequence Typing as a Replacement for Serotyping in Salmonella enterica

• Mark Achtman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Achtman, John Wain, François-Xavier Weill, Satheesh Nair

  * E-mail: m.achtman@ucc.ie

  Affiliations Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

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• John Wain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Achtman, John Wain, François-Xavier Weill, Satheesh Nair

  Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infection, London, United Kingdom

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• François-Xavier Weill ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Achtman, John Wain, François-Xavier Weill, Satheesh Nair

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Satheesh Nair ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Achtman, John Wain, François-Xavier Weill, Satheesh Nair

  Affiliations The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infection, London, United Kingdom

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• Zhemin Zhou,

  Affiliation Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Vartul Sangal,

  Affiliation Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

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• Mary G. Krauland,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• James L. Hale,

  Affiliation Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Heather Harbottle,

  Affiliation Center for Veterinary Medicine, U. S. Food and Drug Administration, Derwood, Maryland, United States of America

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• Alexandra Uesbeck,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Gordon Dougan,

  Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Lee H. Harrison,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sylvain Brisse,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• the S. enterica MLST study group

  ¶For a list of members please see the Acknowledgments.

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