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A five year outbreak of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus phage type 53,85 in a regional neonatal unit [PDF]

, 2000
We identified a 5-year outbreak of a methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) strain, affecting 202 babies on a neonatal unit, by routine weekly phage typing all S. aureus isolates.
Denton, M., Fitzgerald, P., Freeman, J., Gill, A.B., Haspinall, L., Hawkey, P., Hoy, C., Parnell, P., Porter, C., Wilcox, M.H.   +9 more
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Typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from hospitalized patients: a comparison of susceptibility and biochemical profiles with genotype

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2004
Typing techniques are essential for understanding hospital epidemiology, permitting the elucidation of the source of infection and routes of bacterial transmission.
A.L. Freitas, A.L. Barth
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Occurrence and diversity of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in vegetable brassica fields in Nepal [PDF]

, 2010
Black rot caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris was found in 28 sampled cabbage fields in five major cabbage-growing districts in Nepal in 2001 and in four cauliflower fields in two districts and a leaf mustard seed bed in 2003.
Brita Dahl Jensen, Cook A. A., De Bruijn F. J., Hira K. Manandhar, Ignatov A., Joana G. Vicente, Shrestha K., Steven J. Roberts, Versalovic J., Walker J. C., Zaccardelli M.   +10 more
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Genomic epidemiology in Streptococcus suis: Moving beyond traditional typing techniques

Heliyon
Streptococcus suis is a bacterial gram-positive pathogen that causes invasive infections in swine and is also a zoonotic disease agent. Traditional molecular typing techniques such as ribotyping, multilocus sequence typing, pulse-field gel ...
Rujirat Hatrongjit, Nahuel Fittipaldi, Marcelo Gottschalk, Anusak Kerdsin   +3 more
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Genotyping, Plasmid Analysis, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis Isolates from Humans and Chickens in Central Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009
Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis (SE) is the most frequent etiological agent of human salmonellosis. The molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of human and chicken isolates of SE were examined.
Chishih Chu, Ding-Wei Wong, Mei-Hui Wang, Hsin-Hung Lin, Yi-Sheng Chen, Ni Tien, Mu-Chin Shih, Ter-Hsin Chen, Cheng-Hsun Chiu   +8 more
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Meningococci can cause clusters of disease. Specimens from 1,616 patients in Germany obtained over 42 months were typed by serogrouping and sequence typing of PorA and FetA and yielded a highly diverse dataset (Simpson's index 0.963).
Johannes Elias, Dag Harmsen, Heike Claus, Wiebke Hellenbrand, Matthias Frosch, Ulrich Vogel   +5 more
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Health benefits and health claims of probiotics: bridging science and marketing [PDF]

, 2011
Health claims for probiotics are evaluated by the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies of the European Food Safety Authority. Despite a substantial amount of basic and clinical research on the beneficial effects of probiotics, all of the ...
Brummer, R.J., Rijkers, G.T., Vos, W.M., de   +2 more
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Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy for typing of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium: performance analysis and outbreak investigation

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, mainly Enterococcus faecium (VREfm), are causing nosocomial infections and outbreaks. Bacterial typing methods are used to assist in outbreak investigations.
T. C. Scheier, J. Franz, M. Boumasmoud, F. Andreoni, B. Chakrakodi, B. Duvnjak, A. Egli, W. Zingg, A. Ramette, A. Wolfensberger, R. D. Kouyos, S. D. Brugger   +11 more
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Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism is an “old school” reliable technique for swift microbial community screening in anaerobic digestion [PDF]

, 2018
The microbial community in anaerobic digestion has been analysed through microbial fingerprinting techniques, such as terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP), for decades.
De Vrieze, Jo, Ijaz, Umer Z., Saunders, Aaron M., Theuerl, Susanne   +3 more
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Molecular analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients

Scientific Reports, 2021
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a severe bacterial pathogen. Due to the genetic flexibility among strains, chronic airways infection can lead to mortality among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.
Dariusz Jarych, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopec, Agnieszka Iwanska, Pawel Parniewski, Marta Majchrzak   +4 more
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