Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term care facilities and their related healthcare networks

Genome Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Harrison, Ewan M ^a   Ludden, Catherine ^b   Brodrick, Hayley J ^a   Blane, Beth ^a   Brennan, Gráinne ^c   Morris, Dearbháile ^d   Coll, Francesc ^a   Reuter, Sandra ^a   Brown, Nicholas M ^e,f   Holmes, Mark A ^g   O'Connell, Brian ^c   Parkhill, Julian ^h   Török, M Estee ^a,e,f   Cormican, Martin ^d   Peacock, Sharon J ^a,b,e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Long term care facilities; Molecular epidemiology; MRSA; Nursing home; Staphylococcus aureus; Transmission; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTAMINATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRELAND; LONG TERM CARE FACILITY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; CROSS INFECTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONG TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84989347294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-016-0353-5     Document Type: Article

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