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To establish and evaluate the routine operational use of whole genome sequencing as the primary methodology for Salmonella surveillance, strain characterization, and outbreak detection in a national reference laboratory.

November 29, 2015Open Access

Revolutionising Public Health Reference Microbiology using Whole Genome Sequencing: Salmonella as an exemplar

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PAPhilip AshtonUniversity of Liverpool SNSatheesh NairMethodist University Hospital TPTansy PetersPublic Health England

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Surveillance report demonstrates routine whole-genome sequencing transforms Salmonella tracking, indicating improved outbreak detection and antimicrobial resistance profiling.

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To establish and evaluate the routine operational use of whole genome sequencing as the primary methodology for Salmonella surveillance, strain characterization, and outbreak detection in a national reference laboratory.
Public Health England implemented routine high-throughput whole genome sequencing to replace conventional phenotypic typing methods for Salmonella isolates.
Genomic sequence data were deposited in the public Sequence Read Archive under BioProject PRJNA248792 for cross-comparison and epidemiological tracking.
Routine sequencing implementation successfully uncovered previously undetected foodborne disease outbreaks through high-resolution phylogenetic relatedness.
Whole-genome data enabled the identification of rare antimicrobial resistance profiles that traditional phenotypic assays failed to fully characterize.

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Ashton et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a882f738c7e900eb714c4f7 https://doi.org/10.1101/033225

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Surveillance report demonstrates routine whole-genome sequencing transforms Salmonella tracking, indicating improved outbreak detection and antimicrobial resistance profiling.

Revolutionising Public Health Reference Microbiology using Whole Genome Sequencing: Salmonella as an exemplar

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Revolutionising Public Health Reference Microbiology using Whole Genome Sequencing: Salmonella as an exemplar

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