Use of Amplified-Fragment Length Polymorphism To Study the Ecology of Campylobacter jejuni in Environmental Water and To Predict Multilocus Sequence Typing Clonal Complexes
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Simon Lévesque; Karen St-Pierre; Sophie Michaud; Robert D. Arbeit; Eric Frost
- Source
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78:2470-2473
- Subject
- animal diseases
Ecology (disciplines)
Population
Public Health Microbiology
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Campylobacter jejuni
Predictive Value of Tests
Polymorphism (computer science)
parasitic diseases
Genetic variation
Genetic variability
Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
education
Ecosystem
Genetics
education.field_of_study
Ecology
biology
Quebec
Genetic Variation
food and beverages
bacterial infections and mycoses
biology.organism_classification
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Genetics, Population
Multilocus sequence typing
Amplified fragment length polymorphism
Seasons
Water Microbiology
geographic locations
Environmental Monitoring
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Food Science
Biotechnology
- Language
- ISSN
- 1098-5336
0099-2240
We determined the genetic variability among water isolates of Campylobacter jejuni by using amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Across a highly diverse collection of isolates, AFLP clusters did not correlate with MLST clonal complexes, suggesting that AFLP is not reliable for deciphering population genetic relationships and may be problematic for larger epidemiologic analyses.