RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO ANTHRAX OUTBREAKS IN KAZAKHSTAN BASED ON GENOMIC DATA
Date
2020-12-10
Authors
Shevtsov, Alexandr
Vergnaud, Gilles
Amirgazin, Asylulan
Lukhnova, Larissa
Izbanova, Uinkul
Shevtsov, Vladislav
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Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Abstract
We present a retrospective analysis of strains from two anthrax outbreaks in western Kazakhstan in 2009. The outbreaks occurred during the same
period and in the same area located close to main roads, favoring a single source
of infection. However, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA),
canonical single-nucleotide polymorphism (CanSNP) analysis, and genome-wide
analysis demonstrated that the outbreaks were not connected.
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Keywords
canonical single-nucleotide polymorphism, CanSNP, MLVA, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis, Research Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES, anthrax outbreaks, genomic data
Citation
Alexandr Shevtsov, Gilles Vergnaud, Asylulan Amirgazin, Larissa Lukhnova, Uinkul Izbanova, Vladislav Shevtsov, Yerlan Ramankulov Microbiology Resource Announcements Dec 2020, 9 (50) e01126-20; DOI: 10.1128/MRA.01126-20