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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018

Intra-Hospital, Inter-Hospital and Intercontinental Spread of ST78 MRSA From Two Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Outbreaks Established Using Whole-Genome Sequencing.

Megan R Earls, David C Coleman, Gráinne I Brennan, Tanya Fleming, Stefan Monecke, Peter Slickers, Ralf Ehricht, Anna C Shore

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Megan R EarlsMicrobiology Research Unit, Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
David C ColemanMicrobiology Research Unit, Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Gráinne I BrennanNational MRSA Reference Laboratory, St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Tanya FlemingNational MRSA Reference Laboratory, St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Stefan MoneckeAbbott (Alere Technologies GmbH), Jena, Germany.
Peter SlickersAbbott (Alere Technologies GmbH), Jena, Germany.
Ralf EhrichtAbbott (Alere Technologies GmbH), Jena, Germany.
Anna C ShoreMicrobiology Research Unit, Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

From 2009 to 2011 [transmission period (TP) 1] and 2014 to 2017 (TP2), two outbreaks involving community-associated clonal complex (CC) 88-MRSA

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community-associated MRSAcore-genome MLSTNICU outbreaksequence-based plasmid analysisST78-MRSA-IVaST88-MRSA-IVawhole-genome MLSTwhole-genome sequencing

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PMID30022976
PMCPMC6039561

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