Rapid and robust phylotyping of spa t003, a dominant MRSA clone in Luxembourg and other European countries

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Engelthaler, David M ^a   Kelley, Erin ^a   Driebe, Elizabeth M ^a   Bowers, Jolene ^a   Eberhard, Carl F ^a   Trujillo, Jesse ^a   Decruyenaere, Frederic ^b   Schupp, James M ^a   Mossong, Joel ^b   Keim, Paul ^a,c   Even, Jos ^b  

^a TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WHO Collaborating Center for Measles   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Luxembourg; Molecular epidemiology; MRSA; Phylotyping; SNP assays; spa t003; WGST

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOTYPING; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A GENE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; EUROPE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LUXEMBOURG; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84880334414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-339     Document Type: Article

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