Defining the Estimated Core Genome of Bacterial Populations Using a Bayesian Decision Model

• Andries J. van Tonder,

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Medicine, The Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Shilan Mistry,

  Affiliation Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• James E. Bray,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Dorothea M. C. Hill,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Alison J. Cody,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Chris L. Farmer,

  Affiliation Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Keith P. Klugman,

  Affiliation Hubert Department of Global Health Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Anne von Gottberg,

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Stephen D. Bentley,

  Affiliations Pathogen Genomics Team, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Julian Parkhill,

  Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Team, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Keith A. Jolley,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Martin C. J. Maiden,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Angela B. Brueggemann

  * E-mail: angela.brueggemann@ndm.ox.ac.uk

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Medicine, The Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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