TY - JOUR AU - Sopwith, Will AU - Birtles, Andrew AU - Matthews, Margaret AU - Fox, Andrew AU - Gee, Steven AU - Painter, Michael AU - Regan, Martyn AU - Syed, Qutub AU - Bolton, Eric T1 - Campylobacter jejuni Multilocus Sequence Types in Humans, Northwest England, 2003–2004 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 10 SP - 1500 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Detailed understanding of the epidemiology of Campylobacter is increasingly facilitated through use of universal and reproducible techniques for accurate strain differentiation and subtyping. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) enables discriminatory subtyping and grouping of isolate types into genetically related clonal complexes; it also has the advantage of ease of application and repeatability. Recent studies suggest that a measure of host association may be distinguishable with this system. We describe the first continuous population-based survey to investigate the potential of MLST to resolve questions of campylobacteriosis epidemiology. We demonstrate the ability of MLST to identify variations in the epidemiology of campylobacteriosis between distinct populations and describe the distribution of key subtypes of interest. KW - Campylobacter KW - Multilocus Sequence Typing KW - Epidemiology KW - Epidemiology, Molecular KW - Bacterial Typing Techniques KW - Great Britain KW - Research KW - England KW - United Kingdom DO - 10.3201/eid1210.060048 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/10/06-0048_article ER - End of Reference