Background With the efficiency and the decreasing cost of next-generation sequencing, the
technology is being rapidly introduced into clinical and public health laboratory practice. …

… communication is best achieved through simple tables, line lists, outbreak reports, and
person-to-person conversations, without the need to explain the topology of a phylogenetic tree. …

Multiple-locus variable-number of tandem-repeats analysis (MLVA) has emerged as a valuable
method for subtyping bacterial pathogens and has been adopted in many countries as a …

… This method allows users to quickly and efficiently infer phylogenetic trees with relatively …
-based approaches, which create phylogenetic trees based on nucleotide differences among …

… enterica serotype Enteritidis genomes and the reference genome were used to construct
a maximum-likelihood (ML) tree using MEGA 5 (18). A similar ML tree was built by further …

MMWR/February 20, 2015/Vol. 64/No. 6 145 [p= 0.002]) and for cucumber consumption in
Maryland during the month of July (54.9%[p= 0.04]). The proportion of ill persons who …

… in a cluster, a SNP Tree Viewer. For each assembled pathogen… This information also includes
links to the SNP Tree Viewer … The SNP Tree Viewer provides the phylogenetic tree of each …

… E. coli is a bacterium found naturally in the intestines of certain animals including cattle, …
of E. coli where both feral swine and cattle on or adjacent to the crop fields tested positive for E. …

Background. Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a Shiga toxin–producing E. coli (STEC) associated
with numerous foodborne outbreaks in the United States and is an important cause of …

… and designated as A–E, of which A and B are definite and C, D, and E are putative. Isolates
… Inset indicates the location of the highlighted lineage on the global phylogenetic tree. …