Evaluation of WGS-subtyping methods for epidemiological surveillance of foodborne salmonellosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Salmonellosis is one of the most common foodborne diseases worldwide. Although human infection by non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) enterica subspecies enterica is associated primarily with a self-limiting diarrhoeal illness, invasive bacterial infections (such as septicaemia, bacteraemia and meningitis) were also reported. Human outbreaks of NTS were reported in several countries all over the world including developing as well as high-income countries. Conventional laboratory methods such as pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) do not display adequate discrimination and have their limitations in epidemiological surveillance. It is therefore very crucial to use accurate, reliable and highly discriminative subtyping methods for epidemiological characterisati

SUBMITTER: Mohammed M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7993512 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature