Epidemiological tracking and population assignment of the non-clonal bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei.

• Main Authors: Julia Dale (Author), Erin P Price (Author), Heidie Hornstra (Author), Joseph D Busch (Author), Mark Mayo (Author), Daniel Godoy (Author), Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (Author), Anthony Baker (Author), Jeffrey T Foster (Author), David M Wagner (Author), Apichai Tuanyok (Author), Jeffrey Warner (Author), Brian G Spratt (Author), Sharon J Peacock (Author), Bart J Currie (Author), Paul Keim (Author), Talima Pearson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rapid assignment of bacterial pathogens into predefined populations is an important first step for epidemiological tracking. For clonal species, a single allele can theoretically define a population. For non-clonal species such as Burkholderia pseudomallei, however, shared allelic states between dis...