Absence of patient-to-patient intrahospital transmission of Staphylococcus aureus as determined by whole-genome sequencing.

doi:10.1128/mBio.01692-14

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Absence of patient-to-patient intrahospital transmission of Staphylococcus aureus as determined by whole-genome sequencing.

mBio - 7 Oct 2014

Long S Wesley, Beres Stephen B, Olsen Randall J, Musser James M

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Nosocomial transmission of pathogens is a major health care challenge. The increasing spread of antibiotic-resistant strains represents an ongoing threat to public health. Previous Staphylococcus aureus transmission studies have focused on transmission of S. aureus between asymptomatic carriers or used low-resolution typing methods such as multilocus sequence typing (MLST) or spa typing. To identify...

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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross Infection
Genome, Bacterial
Genotype
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Middle Aged
Molecular Epidemiology
Molecular Sequence Data
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Staphylococcal Infections

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PMID: 25293757
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01692-14
PMCID: PMC4196229

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