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refMLST: reference-based multilocus sequence typing enables universal bacterial typing.

Mondher Khdhiri¹, Ella Thomas², Chanel de Smet²

¹BugSeq Bioinformatics Inc, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

BMC Bioinformatics

|August 27, 2024

Summary

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refMLST is a novel gene-by-gene approach for bacterial outbreak investigation. It offers a scalable, reproducible, and robust method applicable to any species with a reference genome, improving upon existing tools.

Keywords:

Epidemiology Genomic Multilocus sequence typing Reference genome

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Area of Science:

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Genomics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Traditional genomic outbreak investigation methods like SNP and gene-by-gene typing have limitations.
These methods require background genomes or curated allele schemes, restricting their use to known organisms.
Novel or less-studied pathogens are often not amenable to these existing approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce refMLST, a novel gene-by-gene approach for bacterial outbreak investigation.
To provide a scalable, reproducible, and robust method for genomic epidemiology.
To overcome limitations of existing methods for novel and less-studied pathogens.

Main Methods:

Developed refMLST, a gene-by-gene approach utilizing a bacterium's reference genome.
Applied refMLST to large datasets of Salmonella enterica, Yersinia enterocolitica, and Campylobacter jejuni genomes.
Compared refMLST performance against established tools such as chewieSnake.

Main Results:

refMLST demonstrated consistent clustering across diverse bacterial species.
The method provided improved resolution for outbreak analysis.
refMLST achieved faster processing times compared to existing tools.
Consistent clustering, improved resolution, and faster processing were observed for Salmonella enterica, Yersinia enterocolitica, and Campylobacter jejuni.

Conclusions:

refMLST is a novel multilocus sequence typing approach.
Applicable to any bacterial species with a public reference genome.
Does not require a curated scheme and automatically accounts for genetic recombination.
Offers a versatile and efficient solution for bacterial outbreak investigation.