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Melisa J. Willby

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMar 23, 2026

Epidemiology of Legionella: Genome-bAsed Typing (el_gato) - a new bioinformatic tool for identifying sequence-based types of Legionella pneumophila from whole genome sequencing data

Alan J. Collins, Dev Mashruwala, Vasanta Chivukula…·Will A. Overholt

el_gato is a new bioinformatic tool that improves sequence-based typing of Legionella pneumophila from whole genome sequencing data, achieving high accuracy comparable to traditional Sanger sequencing.

DOI 10.64898/2026.03.20.713011

humanwhole-genome sequencing

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