mSystems (Aug 2021)

Accessory Genomic Epidemiology of Cocirculating Acinetobacter baumannii Clones

  • Valeria Mateo-Estrada,
  • José Luis Fernández-Vázquez,
  • Julia Moreno-Manjón,
  • Ismael L. Hernández-González,
  • Eduardo Rodríguez-Noriega,
  • Rayo Morfín-Otero,
  • María Dolores Alcántar-Curiel,
  • Santiago Castillo-Ramírez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00626-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4

Abstract

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Whole-genome sequencing for epidemiological investigations (genomic epidemiology) has been of paramount importance to understand the transmission dynamics of many bacterial (and nonbacterial) pathogens. Commonly, variation in the core genome, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), is employed to carry out genomic epidemiology.