Bacterial strain ty**, or identifying bacteria at the strain level, is particularly important for
diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiological surveillance of bacterial infections. This is …

Staphylococcus aureus is a typical human pathogen. Some animal S. aureus lineages have
derived from human strains following profound genetic adaptation determining a change in …

Nosocomial infections pose a significant threat to patient health; however, the gold standard
laboratory method for determining bacterial relatedness (pulsed-field gel electrophoresis …

For bacterial ty** to be useful, the development, validation and appropriate application of
ty** methods must follow unified criteria. Over a decade ago, ESGEM, the ESCMID …

Pulsed-fieldgel electrophoresis (PFGE) is the most common genotypic method used in
reference and clinical laboratories for ty** methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus …

Over the years, approaches to the epidemiological analysis of infectious disease have
undergone a remarkable evolutionary transition moving from phenotypic to molecular in …

Nosocomial infections are an important source of morbidity and mortality in hospital settings,
afflicting an estimated 2 million patients in United States each year. This number represents …

Molecular methods for the rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) are generally based on the detection of an S. aureus-specific gene target and the …

Previous surveillance studies carried out by our laboratories, primarily in Southern and
Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the United States, have characterized 3,067 methicillin …

The prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in many countries is
increasing and, in hospitals in some areas, more than half of all S. aureus disease isolates …