MRSA Transmission on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Epidemiological and Genome-Based Phylogenetic Analyses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nübel, Ulrich ^a   Nachtnebel, Matthias ^a,b   Falkenhorst, Gerhard ^a   Benzler, Justus ^a   Hecht, Jochen ^c,d   Kube, Michael ^c,f   Bröcker, Felix ^c   Moelling, Karin ^c,e   Bührer, Christoph ^d   Gastmeier, Petra ^d   Piening, Brar ^d   Behnke, Michael ^d   Dehnert, Manuel ^a   Layer, Franziska ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^a   Eckmanns, Tim ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYLOGENY; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84873163965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054898     Document Type: Article

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