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. 2019 Jan 23;9:3280. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03280

Table 3.

Recent studies in whole genome sequencing (WGS) of Campylobacter spp.

Sequencing type Organism Topic Sample; Country; Author; Notes
Illumina C. jejuni/coli Antimicrobial resistance profiling Clinical, meats, ceca isolates; USA; Zhao et al. (2016)
Identified antimicrobial resistance genes to predict phenotypic resistance.
Illumina C. jejuni/coli Antimicrobial resistance profiling Poultry isolates; USA; Whitehouse et al. (2018)
Identified antimicrobial resistance genes to predict phenotypic resistance.
Illumina C. jejuni Antimicrobial resistance profiling Clinical, poultry isolates; Estonia; Mäesaar et al. (2018)
Used WGS and MLST to analyze antimicrobial resistance in strain types.
Illumina C. jejuni Antimicrobial resistance profiling Poultry isolates; Europe; Leekitcharoenphon et al. (2018)
Examined fluoroquinolone resistance in poultry isolates from 12 European countries.
Illumina Campylobacter spp. Comparative analysis Poultry, bird isolates; USA; Lawton et al. (2018)
Compared using MALDI-TOF MS as a rapid method to identify Campylobacter isolates to species level.
Ion torrent C. jejuni Comparative analysis Clinical, animal, environmental isolates; France; Thépault et al. (2018)
Studied pathogen source attribution of campylobacteriosis in France using WGS and MLST.
Illumina C. jejuni/coli Epidemiology Chicken liver pâté; Sweden; Lahti et al. (2017)
Outbreak of campylobacteriosis due to undercooked chicken liver pate.
Illumina/wgMLST C. jejuni Epidemiology Clinical, poultry, bovine isolates; Israel; Rokney et al. (2018)
Used WGS and wgMLST to screen for virulence genes in Isreaeli C. jejuni isolates.
Illumina C. jejuni Genome sequence Poultry isolates; USA; Taveirne et al. (2017)
Sequenced three C. jejuni strains from naturally colonized farm-raised chickens.
Illumina/SMRT C. jejuni Genome sequence Poultry isolates; USA; Sacher et al. (2018)
Sequenced three phage-propagating strains of C. jejuni.
Illumina/SMRT C. coli Genome sequence Poultry isolate; USA; Ghatak et al. (2017)
Discovered type VI secretion system and antimicrobial resistance genes in plasmid of C. coli YH502.
Ion Torrent C. jejuni/coli Genome sequence Chicken sushi; Japan; Asakura et al. (2017)
Sequenced two isolates associated with an outbreak due to consumption of undercooked chicken sushi.
Illumina C. jejuni Genome wide association study Clinical, animal, environmental isolates; Canada; Buchanan et al. (2017)
Identified gene markers associated with clinically related C. jejuni isolates.
Illumina C. jejuni/coli Stress resistance Clinical, poultry isolates; UK; O’Kane and Connerton (2017)
Analyzed aerotolerant C. coli strain.