Phage typing or CRISPR typing for epidemiological surveillance of Salmonella Typhimurium?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Salmonella Typhimurium is the most dominant Salmonella serovar around the world. It is associated with foodborne gastroenteritis outbreaks but has recently been associated with invasive illness and deaths. Characterization of S. Typhimurium is therefore very crucial for epidemiological surveillance. Phage typing has been used for decades for subtyping of S. Typhimurium to determine the epidemiological relation among isolates. Recent studies however have suggested that high throughput clustered regular interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) typing has the potential to replace phage typing. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of high-throughput CRISPR typing over conventional phage typing in epidemiological surveillance and outbreak investigation of S. Typhim

SUBMITTER: Mohammed M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5678594 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature