Application of whole-genome sequencing for bacterial strain typing in molecular epidemiology

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1072-1079

  Salipante, Stephen J ^a   SenGupta, Dhruba J ^a   Cummings, Lisa A ^a   Land, Tyler A ^a   Hoogestraat, Daniel R ^a   Cookson, Brad T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GOLD STANDARD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROCEDURES;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84925263609     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03385-14     Document Type: Article

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