Whole-Genome Sequencing for Outbreak Investigations of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Time for Routine Practice

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 777-785

  Azarian, Taj ^a,b   Cook, Robert L ^a,b   Johnson, Judith A ^a,b   Guzman, Nilmarie ^a   McCarter, Yvette S ^a   Gomez, Noel ^c   Rathore, Mobeen H ^b,d   Morris, J Glenn ^a,b   Salemi, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

^d WOLFSON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; FLORIDA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARDS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GENOME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84994246151     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.73     Document Type: Article

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