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Clinical Laboratory Response to a Mock Outbreak of Invasive Bacterial Infections: a Preparedness Study
25 Sept 2014
Abstract excerpt
Large hospital-based clinical laboratories must be prepared to rapidly investigate potential infectious disease outbreaks. To challenge the ability of our molecular diagnostics laboratory to use whole-genome sequencing in a potential outbreak scenario and identify impediments to these efforts, we studied 84 invasive serotype emm59 group A streptococcus (GAS) strains collected in the United States. We performed a...
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