Detection of multiple-strain carriers: The value of re-sampling

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-103

  Coen, Pietro G ^a   Wilks, Mark ^b   Dall'Antonia, Martino ^b   Millar, Michael ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carriage; Competition; MRSA; Simulation; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; SIMULATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; HUMAN; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARRIER STATE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33646020359     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.08.031     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bogaert D., van Belkum A., Sluijter M., Luijendijk A., de Groot R., Rumke H.C., Verbrugh H.A., and Hermans P.W. Colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in healthy children. Lancet 363 (2004) 1871-1872
2. Bogaert D., Veenhoven R.H., Sluijter M., Sanders E.A., de Groot R., and Hermans P.W. Colony blot assay: a useful method to detect multiple pneumococcal serotypes within clinical specimens. FEMS Immunol. Med. Microbiol. 41 (2004) 259-264
3. Cartwright K.A., Stuart J.M., Jones D.M., and Noah N.D. The Stonehouse survey: nasopharyngeal carriage of meningococci and Neisseria lactamica. Epidemiol. Infect 99 (1987) 591-601
4. Caugant D.A., Kristiansen B.E., Froholm L.O., Bovre K., and Selander R.K. Clonal diversity of Neisseria meningitidis from a population of asymptomatic carriers. Infect Immun. 56 (1988) 2060-2068
5. Caugant D.A., Hoiby E.A., Magnus P., Scheel O., Hoel T., Bjune G., Wedege E., Eng J., and Froholm L.O. Asymptomatic carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in a randomly sampled population. J. Clin. Microbiol. 32 (1994) 323-330
6. Cepeda J.A., Whitehouse T., Cooper B., Hails J., Jones K., Kwaku F., Taylor L., Hayman S., Cookson B., Shaw S., Kibbler C., Singer M., Bellingan G., and Wilson A.P. Isolation of patients in single rooms or cohorts to reduce spread of MRSA in intensive-care units: prospective two-centre study. Lancet 365 (2005) 295-304
7. Cespedes C., Said-Salim B., Miller M., Lo S.H., Kreiswirth B.N., Gordon R.J., Vavagiakis P., Klein R.S., and Lowy F.D. The clonality of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage. J. Infect Dis. 191 (2005) 444-452
8. Cormack R.M. Models for capture-recapture. In: Patil G.P., and Robson D.S. (Eds). Sampling Biological Populations (1979), International Co-operative Publishing House, Fairiland, MD 217-255
9. Dall'Antonia, M., Coen, P. G., Wilks, M., Whiley, A., Millar, M., 2005. Competition between methicillin-sensitive and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the anterior nares. J. Hosp. Infect., in press.
10. Grundmann H., Hori S., Winter B., Tami A., and Austin D.J. Risk factors for the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an adult intensive care unit: fitting a model to the data. J. Infect. Dis. 185 (2002) 481-488
11. Jolly G.M. Explicit estimates from capture-recapture data with both death and immigration-stochastic model. Biometrika 52 (1965) 225-247
12. Lipsitch M. Interpreting results from trials of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines: a statistical test for detecting vaccine-induced increases in carriage of nonvaccine serotypes. Am. J. Epidemiol. 154 (2001) 85-92
13. Melegaro A., Gay N.J., and Medley G.F. Estimating the transmission parameters of pneumococcal carriage in households. Epidemiol. Infect 132 (2004) 433-441
14. Michaels R.H., Poziviak C.S., Stonebraker F.E., and Norden C.W. Factors affecting pharyngeal Haemophilus influenzae type b colonization rates in children. J. Clin. Microbiol. 4 (1976) 413-417
15. Oriyo, N., Charalambous, B.M., Sinclair, A., Gillespie, S.H., 2004. Nasopharyngeal carriage of multiple Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in a semi-closed community in the Kilimanjaro region of northern Tanzania. In: The Fourth International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases, 9-5-2004.