Genome comparison of <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i> clinical strains by DNA microarrays analysis.

<p>An average linkage hierarchical clustering of the <i>C. jejuni</i> strains with a distance score scale bar was compiled in GeneSpring version 7.3 with the standard correlation and bootstrapping (see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002015#s2" target="_blank">Materials and Methods</a>). The gene status based on cutoff values of absence and presence predictions is shown color-coded: blue, present; light blue, divergent; red, highly divergent or absent; white, no data. <i>C. jejuni</i> strains from South Africa with HS∶41 serotype (yellow), with other serotypes (green), or strains with HS∶41 serotype from Mexico and Canada (white) are designated vertically across the bottom. GBS-associated strains are annotated with stars; MFS-associated strains are annotated with diamonds. The four <i>C. jejuni</i>-integrated elements (CJIEs) and the assigned MLST sequence type (ST) for each strain cluster is indicated.