Whole genome sequencing for B. pertussis epidemiology : Core genome MLST enables precise B. pertussis epidemiology. Whole Genome sequencing of french isolates and epidemiology

We defined a core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) scheme. We report that the resolutive power of cgMLST is sufficient to define epidemiologically-related groups of isolates and to distinguish them from temporally and geographically co-circulating isolates.