WGS Surveillance Project in Denmark Leads to Campylobacter Insights
A surveillance project in Denmark using whole-genome sequencing (WGS), published by the journal Eurosurveillance, has found that many Campylobacter infections are not sporadic, and helped uncover a large outbreak.
The study revealed that about half of human infections belong to genetic clusters, almost one-third of clinical isolates match a chicken source, and most large clusters can be linked to poultry by WGS.