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Clostridium botulinum

Source of isolates submitted to the Clostridium botulinum database
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The MLST scheme hosted in this database was developed by Guangyun Lin and Mark Jacobson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. It is described in Jacobson et al. 2008 Microbiology 154:2408-2415.

Database curated by fry6atcdc.gov (Carolina Lúquez) and JLHalpinatcdc.gov (Jessica Halpin).

The preferred citation for this website is:

Jolley et al. Wellcome Open Res 2018, 3:124 [version 1; referees: 2 approved].

Typing

The typing database contains nomenclature - allele definitions that provide an identifier for every unique allele sequence, and MLST profiles that index each unique combination of alleles with a sequence type (ST).

Allele sequences:
327
Last updated:
2024-12-11

Isolate collection

The isolate database consists of isolate records containing provenance and phenotype information linked to molecular typing information. These records may also include genome assemblies.

Isolates:
339
Last updated:
2025-04-15

Genome collection

A subset of records within the isolate database may contain genomes assemblies. You can access these from the isolate database by filtering on sequence bin size in a query.

Genomes:
38
Last updated:
2024-12-11

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Please cite Jolley et al. 2018 Wellcome Open Res 3:124 if you use data or analysis from PubMLST in your publications.

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