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Development of a Single Locus Sequence Typing (SLST) Scheme for Typing Bacterial Species Directly from Complex Communities

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Bacterial Pathogenesis

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1535))

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The protocol describes a computational method to develop a Single Locus Sequence Typing (SLST) scheme for typing bacterial species. The resulting scheme can be used to type bacterial isolates as well as bacterial species directly from complex communities using next-generation sequencing technologies.

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  1. Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Wilhelms Meyers Allé 4, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark

    Christian F. P. Scholz & Anders Jensen

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  1. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund, Sweden

    Pontus Nordenfelt

  2. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund, Sweden

    Mattias Collin

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Scholz, C.F.P., Jensen, A. (2017). Development of a Single Locus Sequence Typing (SLST) Scheme for Typing Bacterial Species Directly from Complex Communities. In: Nordenfelt, P., Collin, M. (eds) Bacterial Pathogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1535. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6673-8_7

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