A public database for the new MLST scheme for Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum : surveillance and epidemiology of the causative agent of syphilis

• Published in: PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) Vol. 6; p. e6182
• Main Authors: Grillova, Linda, Jolley, Keith, Šmajs, David, Picardeau, Mathieu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States PeerJ. Ltd 09.01.2019; PeerJ, Inc; PeerJ; PeerJ Inc
• Subjects: Bacterial infections; Biology; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA sequencing; Epidemiology; Evolution; Genetics; Genomes; Human health and pathology; Infections; Infectious Diseases; Life Sciences; Metadata; Microbiology; Microbiology and Parasitology; Molecular typing; Multilocus sequence typing; Nucleotide sequence; Pathogenesis; Pathogens; Penicillin; Population studies; Public health; PubMLST; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Surveillance; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum; Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum; France; Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum; Molecular typing; PubMLST; Infectious Diseases Keywords Treponema pallidum subsp pallidum; Subjects Microbiology; Epidemiology

Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease with worldwide prevalence. Several different molecular typing schemes are currently available for this pathogen. To enable population biology studies of the syphilis agent and for epidemiological su...