Clonal differences in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia-associated mortality

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1381-1388

  Recker, Mario ^a   Laabei, Maisem ^b   Toleman, Michelle S ^c   Reuter, Sandra ^c   Saunderson, Rebecca B ^c   Blane, Beth ^c   Török, M Estee ^c   Ouadi, Khadija ^b   Stevens, Emily ^b   Yokoyama, Maho ^b   Steventon, Joseph ^b   Thompson, Luke ^b   Milne, Gregory ^b   Bayliss, Sion ^b   Bacon, Leann ^b   Peacock, Sharon J ^c,d   Massey, Ruth C ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL DEATH; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACHINE LEARNING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; THP-1 CELL LINE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85029436742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-017-0001-x     Document Type: Article

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