The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus

Dichelobacter nodosus (D. nodosus) is the causative pathogen of ovine footrot, a disease that has a significant welfare and financial impact on the global sheep industry. Previous studies into the phylogenetics of D. nodosus have focused on Australia and Scandinavia, meaning the current diversity in...

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Main Authors: Blanchard, Adam M., Jolley, Keith A., Maiden, Martin C.J., Coffey, Tracey J., Maboni, Grazieli, Staley, Ceri E., Bollard, N.J., Warry, Andrew, Emes, Richard D., Davies, Peers, Tötemeyer, Sabine
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author Blanchard, Adam M.
Jolley, Keith A.
Maiden, Martin C.J.
Coffey, Tracey J.
Maboni, Grazieli
Staley, Ceri E.
Bollard, N.J.
Warry, Andrew
Emes, Richard D.
Davies, Peers
Tötemeyer, Sabine
author_facet Blanchard, Adam M.
Jolley, Keith A.
Maiden, Martin C.J.
Coffey, Tracey J.
Maboni, Grazieli
Staley, Ceri E.
Bollard, N.J.
Warry, Andrew
Emes, Richard D.
Davies, Peers
Tötemeyer, Sabine
author_sort Blanchard, Adam M.
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description Dichelobacter nodosus (D. nodosus) is the causative pathogen of ovine footrot, a disease that has a significant welfare and financial impact on the global sheep industry. Previous studies into the phylogenetics of D. nodosus have focused on Australia and Scandinavia, meaning the current diversity in the United Kingdom (U.K.) population and its relationship globally, is poorly understood. Numerous epidemiological methods are available for bacterial typing; however, few account for whole genome diversity or provide the opportunity for future application of new computational techniques. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) measures nucleotide variations within several loci with slow accumulation of variation to enable the designation of allele numbers to determine a sequence type. The usage of whole genome sequence data enables the application of MLST, but also core and whole genome MLST for higher levels of strain discrimination with a negligible increase in experimental cost. An MLST database was developed alongside a seven loci scheme using publically available whole genome data from the sequence read archive. Sequence type designation and strain discrimination was compared to previously published data to ensure reproducibility. Multiple D. nodosus isolates from U.K. farms were directly compared to populations from other countries. The U.K. isolates define new clades within the global population of D. nodosus and predominantly consist of serogroups A, B and H, however serogroups C, D, E, and I were also found. The scheme is publically available at https://pubmlst.org/dnodosus/.
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spelling nottingham-505102018-04-10T15:43:38Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50510/ The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus Blanchard, Adam M. Jolley, Keith A. Maiden, Martin C.J. Coffey, Tracey J. Maboni, Grazieli Staley, Ceri E. Bollard, N.J. Warry, Andrew Emes, Richard D. Davies, Peers Tötemeyer, Sabine Dichelobacter nodosus (D. nodosus) is the causative pathogen of ovine footrot, a disease that has a significant welfare and financial impact on the global sheep industry. Previous studies into the phylogenetics of D. nodosus have focused on Australia and Scandinavia, meaning the current diversity in the United Kingdom (U.K.) population and its relationship globally, is poorly understood. Numerous epidemiological methods are available for bacterial typing; however, few account for whole genome diversity or provide the opportunity for future application of new computational techniques. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) measures nucleotide variations within several loci with slow accumulation of variation to enable the designation of allele numbers to determine a sequence type. The usage of whole genome sequence data enables the application of MLST, but also core and whole genome MLST for higher levels of strain discrimination with a negligible increase in experimental cost. An MLST database was developed alongside a seven loci scheme using publically available whole genome data from the sequence read archive. Sequence type designation and strain discrimination was compared to previously published data to ensure reproducibility. Multiple D. nodosus isolates from U.K. farms were directly compared to populations from other countries. The U.K. isolates define new clades within the global population of D. nodosus and predominantly consist of serogroups A, B and H, however serogroups C, D, E, and I were also found. The scheme is publically available at https://pubmlst.org/dnodosus/. Frontiers 2018-03-23 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50510/8/fmicb-09-00551.pdf Blanchard, Adam M., Jolley, Keith A., Maiden, Martin C.J., Coffey, Tracey J., Maboni, Grazieli, Staley, Ceri E., Bollard, N.J., Warry, Andrew, Emes, Richard D., Davies, Peers and Tötemeyer, Sabine (2018) The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9 . 551/1-551/10. ISSN 1664-302X footrot Dichelobacter nodosus MLST genotyping core genome multilocus sequence typing whole genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST) cgMLST https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00551/full doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00551 doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00551
spellingShingle footrot
Dichelobacter nodosus
MLST genotyping
core genome multilocus sequence typing
whole genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST)
cgMLST
Blanchard, Adam M.
Jolley, Keith A.
Maiden, Martin C.J.
Coffey, Tracey J.
Maboni, Grazieli
Staley, Ceri E.
Bollard, N.J.
Warry, Andrew
Emes, Richard D.
Davies, Peers
Tötemeyer, Sabine
The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus
title The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus
title_full The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus
title_fullStr The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus
title_full_unstemmed The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus
title_short The applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Dichelobacter nodosus
title_sort applied development of a tiered multilocus sequence typing (mlst) scheme for dichelobacter nodosus
topic footrot
Dichelobacter nodosus
MLST genotyping
core genome multilocus sequence typing
whole genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST)
cgMLST
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