Assignment of Streptococcus agalactiae isolates to clonal complexes using a small set of single nucleotide polymorphisms

Erin Honsa^1,4 , Thomas Fricke^1,5 , Alex J Stephens¹ , Danny Ko² , Fanrong Kong² , Gwendolyn L Gilbert² , Flavia Huygens¹ and Philip M Giffard^1,3

¹  Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia

²  Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales, Australia

³  Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

⁴  Baylor College of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Houston, Texas, USA

⁵  School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK