Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Two Anthrax Outbreaks in Kazakhstan Based on Genomic Data.

Alexandr B ShevtsovGilles VergnaudAsylulan AmirgazinLarissa LukhnovaUinkul IzbanovaVladislav ShevtsovYerlan Ramankulov

Published in: Microbiology resource announcements (2020)

We present a retrospective analysis of strains from two anthrax outbreaks in western Kazakhstan in 2009. The outbreaks occurred during the same period and in the same area located close to main roads, favoring a single source of infection. However, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA), canonical single-nucleotide polymorphism (CanSNP) analysis, and genome-wide analysis demonstrated that the outbreaks were not connected.

Keyphrases

infectious diseases
genome wide analysis
escherichia coli
south africa
gene expression
dna methylation
data analysis
deep learning