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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2017

The EpiQuant Framework for Computing Epidemiological Concordance of Microbial Subtyping Data.

Benjamin M Hetman, Steven K Mutschall, James E Thomas, Victor P J Gannon, Clifford G Clark, Frank Pollari, Eduardo N Taboada

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Benjamin M HetmanDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Steven K MutschallNational Microbiology Laboratory at Lethbridge, Public Health Agency of Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
James E ThomasDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Victor P J GannonNational Microbiology Laboratory at Lethbridge, Public Health Agency of Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Clifford G ClarkNational Microbiology Laboratory at Winnipeg, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Frank PollariCentre for Foodborne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Eduardo N TaboadaNational Microbiology Laboratory at Lethbridge, Public Health Agency of Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada eduardo.taboada@canada.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-8373-3653

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fundamental assumption in the use and interpretation of microbial subtyping results for public health investigations is that isolates that appear to be related based on molecular subtyping data are expected to share commonalities with respect to their origin, history, and distribution. Critically, there is currently no approach for systematically assessing the underlying epidemiology of subtyping results. Our aim was to develop a method for directly quantifying the similarity between bacterial isolates using basic sampling metadata and to develop a framework for computing the epidemiological concordance of microbial typing results. We have developed an analytical model that summarizes the similarity of bacterial isolates using basic parameters typically provided in sampling records, using a novel framework (EpiQuant) developed in the R environment for statistical computing. We have applied the EpiQuant framework to a data set comprising 654 isolates of the enteric pathogen

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Campylobacter InfectionsCampylobacter jejuniCanadaGenome, BacterialHumansModels, StatisticalMolecular EpidemiologyMolecular TypingCampylobacter jejuniecological epidemiologyepidemiological concordancemolecular epidemiologymolecular subtypingsampling metadatawhole-genome sequencing

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PMID28202797
PMCPMC5405252

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