Delineating Community Outbreaks of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium by Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing: Insights into Genomic Variability within an Outbreak
- 1 April 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 53 (4), 1063-1071
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.03235-14
Abstract
Whole-genome next-generation sequencing (NGS) was used to retrospectively examine 57 isolates from five epidemiologically confirmed community outbreaks (numbered 1 to 5) caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium phage type DT170. Most of the human and environmental isolates confirmed epidemiologically to be involved in the outbreaks were either genomically identical or differed by one or two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), with the exception of those in outbreak 1. The isolates from outbreak 1 differed by up to 12 SNPs, which suggests that the food source of the outbreak was contaminated with more than one strain while each of the other four outbreaks was caused by a single strain. In addition, NGS analysis ruled in isolates that were initially not considered to be linked with the outbreak, which increased the total outbreak size by 107%. The mutation process was modeled by using known mutation rates to derive a cutoff value for the number of SNP difference to determine whether or not a case was part of an outbreak. For an outbreak with less than 1 month of ex vivo / in vivo evolution time, the maximum number of SNP differences between isolates is two or four using the lowest or highest mutation rate, respectively. NGS of S . Typhimurium significantly increases the resolution of investigations of community outbreaks. It can also inform a more targeted public health response by providing important supplementary evidence that cases of disease are or are not associated with food-borne outbreaks of S . Typhimurium.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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