Journal article
The Stealthy Superbug: The role of asymptomatic enteric carriage in maintaining a long-term hospital outbreak of ST228 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- Abstract:
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Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of 228 isolates was used to elucidate the origin and dynamics of a long-term outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) sequence type 228 (ST228) SCCmec I that involved 1,600 patients in a tertiary care hospital between 2008 and 2012. Combining of the sequence data with detailed metadata on patient admission and movement confirmed that the outbreak was due to the transmission of a single clonal variant of ST228, rather than repeated introductio...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Society for Microbiology Publisher's website
- Journal:
- mBio Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- e02039-15
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-11-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2150-7511
- ISSN:
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2161-2129
- Source identifiers:
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598024
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:598024
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:598024
- Deposit date:
- 2016-03-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Senn et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Senn et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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