What are the examples of mixture of closely related bacterial strains?

Question

[Sama]

I know that mixed infections contain mixture of a few unrelated strains of the same bacterial species (source). What are the other examples of this kind of mixture?

Actually, I want to know where mixture of bacterial strains (similar strains with 100-10000 bp variations from each other) can be found?

[5heikki]

Pretty much everywhere except pure cultures?

[Sama]

So in every bacterial population there are very similar strains? What are the benefits of separating those close strains from each other? For example, I know that in order to choose the right treatment for a some diseases it is necessary to be able to separate closely related bacteria correctly. What are the other applications of having similar strains separately?

Answer 1

[jesselee516]

Hi, everyone.

I am looking the paper you mentioned now. Do you have any idea which datasets are the 36 in vitro datasets said in the paper. I know I can get all dataset from PRJEB1729. But there are too many there. And Do you know how to get the real SNPs for the 36 in vitro datasets?