Fatal nosocomial MDR TB identified through routine genetic analysis and whole-genome sequencing

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1082-1084

  Martin Williams, O ^a   Abeel, Thomas ^b,c   Casali, Nicola ^d,e   Cohen, Keira ^f   Pym, Alex S ^f   Mungall, Sarah B ^g   Desjardins, Christopher A ^c   Banerjee, Anindo ^h   Drobniewski, Francis ^e   Earl, Ashlee M ^c   Cooke, Graham S ^e  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f K Research Institute for TB HIV   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LETTER; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIAL GENOME; CROSS INFECTION; FATALITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84929413724     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2106.141903     Document Type: Letter

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