Epidemiological investigation of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from a six-year-long hospital outbreak using high-throughput whole genome sequencing

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 42, 2013, Pages

  Snyder, L A ^a,b   Loman, N J ^a   Faraj, L A ^c   Levi, K ^d   Weinstock, G ^e   Boswell, T C ^d   Pallen, M J ^f   Ala'Aldeen, D A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; MEROPENEM; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISK DIFFUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84886884205     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.42.20611     Document Type: Article

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