Automated DNA sequence-based early warning system for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreaks

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 348-355

  Mellmann, Alexander ^a   Friedrich, Alexander W ^a   Rosenkötter, Nicole ^b   Rothgänger, Jörg ^c   Karch, Helge ^a   Reintjes, Ralf ^b   Harmsen, Dag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Ridom GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INPATIENTS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33645371272     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030033     Document Type: Article

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