TY - JOUR AU - Sekizuka, Tsuyoshi AU - Katsukawa, Chihiro AU - Kuroda, Makoto AU - Shibayama, Keigo AU - Otsuji, Ken AU - Saito, Mitsumasa AU - Yamamoto, Akihiko AU - Iwaki, Masaaki T1 - Limitations of Ribotyping as Genotyping Method for Corynebacterium ulcerans T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 10 SP - 2457 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We conducted molecular typing of a Corynebacterium ulcerans isolate from a woman who died in Japan in 2016. Genomic DNA modification might have affected the isolate’s ribotyping profile. Multilocus sequence typing results (sequence type 337) were more accurate. Whole-genome sequencing had greater ability to discriminate lineages at high resolution. KW - Corynebacterium ulcerans KW - molecular typing KW - genome sequence KW - multilocus sequence typing KW - phylogeny KW - bacteria KW - zoonoses KW - ribotyping KW - whole-genome sequencing DO - 10.3201/eid2610.200086 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0086_article ER - End of Reference