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Advancing Legionella pneumophila genomic surveillance with a high-resolution cg/wgMLST schema for outbreak detection and investigation

2026-02-19 public and global health Title + abstract only
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IntroductionSequence-based typing (SBT) has been the standard molecular typing method for understanding Legionella pneumophila genetic relationships. However, genome-scale typing approaches, namely core-genome (cg) or whole-genome (wg) multilocus sequence typing (MLST), provide higher discriminatory power. To advance these capabilities, the Legionella International Typing (LIT) workgroup was established to develop, evaluate, and disseminate a novel cgMLST schema with enhanced wgMLST resolution f...

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