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Abstract

The White–Kauffmann–Le Minor (WKL) scheme is the most widely used typing scheme for reporting the disease prevalence of the enteric pathogen. With the advent of whole-genome sequencing (WGS), methods have increasingly replaced traditional serotyping due to reproducibility, speed and coverage. However, despite integrating genomic-based typing by serotyping tools such as SISTR, serotyping in certain contexts remains ambiguous and insufficiently informative. Specifically, serotyping does not attempt to resolve polyphyly. Furthermore, in spite of the widespread acknowledgement of polyphyly from genomic studies, the prevalence of polyphyletic serovars is not well characterized. Here, we applied a genomics approach to acquire the necessary resolution to classify genetically discordant serovars and propose an alternative typing scheme that consistently reflect natural populations. By accessing the unprecedented volume of bacterial genomic data publicly available in GenomeTrakr and PubMLST databases (>180 000 genomes representing 723 serovars), we characterized the global population structure and systematically identified putative non-monophyletic serovars. The proportion of putative non-monophyletic serovars was estimated higher than previous reports, reinforcing the inability of antigenic determinants to depict the complexity of evolutionary history. We explored the extent of genetic diversity masked by serotyping labels and found significant intra-serovar molecular differences across many clinically important serovars. To avoid false discovery due to incorrect serotyping calls, we cross-referenced reported serovar labels and concluded a low error rate in serotyping. The combined application of clustering statistics and genome-wide association methods demonstrated effective characterization of stable bacterial populations and explained functional differences. The collective methods adopted in our study have practical values in establishing genomic-based typing nomenclatures for an entire microbial species or closely related subpopulations. Ultimately, we foresee an improved typing scheme to be a hybrid that integrates both genomic and antigenic information such that the resolution from WGS is leveraged to improve the precision of subpopulation classification while preserving the common names defined by the WKL scheme.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Award CGS-M)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Chun LiuChao
  • Genome British Columbia (Award 286GET)
    • Principle Award Recipient: W.L. HsiaoWilliam
  • Genome Canada (Award 286GET)
    • Principle Award Recipient: W.L. HsiaoWilliam
  • Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
    • Principle Award Recipient: W.L. HsiaoWilliam
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Award PJT-159456)
    • Principle Award Recipient: W.L. HsiaoWilliam
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
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