Extended Sequence Typing of Campylobacter spp., United Kingdom

Abstract

Supplementing Campylobacter spp. multilocus sequence typing with nucleotide sequence typing of 3 antigen genes increased the discriminatory index achieved from 0.975 to 0.992 among 620 clinical isolates from Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. This enhanced typing scheme enabled identification of clusters and retained data required for long-range epidemiologic comparisons of isolates.

Keywords

• Campylobacter jejuni
• Campylobacter coli
• multilocus sequence typing
• molecular epidemiology
• antigen sequence typing
• dispatch