High-resolution melting-curve analysis of ligation-mediated real-time PCR for rapid evaluation of an epidemiological outbreak of extended-spectrum-beta- lactamase-producing Escherichia coli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4032-4039

  Woksepp, Hanna ^a   Jernberg, Cecilia ^b   Tärnberg, Maria ^d   Ryberg, Anna ^e   Brolund, Alma ^b,c   Nordvall, Michaela ^e   Olsson Liljequist, Barbro ^b   Wisell, Karin Tegmark ^b,c   Monstein, Hans Jürg ^d,e   Nilsson, Lennart E ^d   Schön, Thomas ^a  

^a KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Operations and Specialty Surgery Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GOLD STANDARD; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 82455216702     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01042-11     Document Type: Article

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