Assembled genomes were imported into Ridom SeqSphere+ software, version 6.0.2 (Jünemann et al., 2013 (link)) and core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) profiles were assigned using the default Salmonella enterica task template with 3,002 core gene targets created based on EnteroBase S. enterica cgMLST v2 scheme,1 as previously described (Di Marcantonio et al., 2020 (link)). Default settings were applied for allele calling and cgMLST complex detection [complex cut-off ≤ 7 loci (Dangel et al., 2019 (link))]. Only genomes containing ≥98% good target sequences were used in further in silico analyses. Minimum-spanning tree (MST) was generated by pairwise comparison of cgMLST alleles ignoring missing values. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis of the set of 103 strains sequenced in this study was performed in Ridom SeqSphere + using the Achtman Salmonella seven locus MLST scheme, available at http://enterobase.warwick.ac.uk/species/index/senterica. A novel MLST profile (ST-8528) was generated for strain 2020-CB-4517-1-2 by submitting the sequencing reads directly to EnteroBase.
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