Concluding Thoughts

With the cost of WGS falling, more researchers are conducting in-depth genome comparison and epidemiological studies using this tech­nology. WGS analysis of isolates with defined phenotype, virulence or pathogenicity and functional/virulence studies of genomically divergent strains should provide further in­sights into these distinct traits and genomic polymorphisms.

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