The use of genome wide association methods to investigate pathogenicity, population structure and serovar in Haemophilus parasuis
Abstract
Haemophilus parasuis is the etiologic agent of Glasser's disease in pigs and causes devastating losses to the farming industry. Whilst some hyper-virulent isolates have been described, the relationship between genetics and disease outcome has been only partially established. In particular, there is weak correlation between serovar and disease phenotype. We sequenced the genomes of 212 isolates of H. parasuis and have used this to describe the pan-genome and to correlate this with clinical and carrier status, as well as with serotype.
Citation
Howell , K J , Weinert , L A , Chaudhuri , R R , Luan , S-L , Peters , S E , Corander , J , Harris , D , Angen , Ø , Aragon , V , Bensaid , A , Williamson , S M , Parkhill , J , Langford , P R , Rycroft , A N , Wren , B W , Holden , M T , Tucker , A W & Maskell , D J 2014 , ' The use of genome wide association methods to investigate pathogenicity, population structure and serovar in Haemophilus parasuis ' , BMC Genomics , vol. 15 , 1179 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-1179
Publication
BMC Genomics
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1471-2164Type
Journal article
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This work was supported by a BPEX PhD studentship and a Longer and Larger (LoLa) grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (grant numbers BB/G020744/1, BB/G019177/1, BB/G019274/1 and BB/G003203/1), the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Zoetis, awarded to the Bacterial Respiratory Diseases of Pigs-1 Technology (BRaDP1T) consortium.Collections
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