Genomic analysis to improve the management of outbreaks of bacterial infection

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 335-337

  Didelot, Xavier ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacterial infection; disease outbreak management; genomic analysis; infectious disease epidemiology; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ASIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 84879941229     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.13.15     Document Type: Review

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