Whole-genome sequencing shows that patient-to-patient transmission rarely accounts for acquisition of staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 609-618

  Price, James R ^a   Golubchik, Tanya ^b   Cole, Kevin ^a   Wilson, Daniel J ^c,d   Crook, Derrick W ^c   Thwaites, Guy E ^e   Bowden, Rory ^d   Walker, A Sarah ^c   Peto, Timothy E A ^c   Paul, John ^a   Llewelyn, Martin J ^a,f  

^a ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adult; intensive care unit; spa typing; Staphylococcus aureus transmission; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84894279388     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit807     Document Type: Article

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