ArticleJournal of biomedical informatics2019
Statistical outbreak detection by joining medical records and pathogen similarity.
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- Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections from a Contaminated Gastroscope Detected by Whole Genome Sequencing Surveillance.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Method for Economic Evaluation of Bacterial Whole Genome Sequencing Surveillance Compared to Standard of Care in Detecting Hospital Outbreaks.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
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- Use of online tools for antimicrobial resistance prediction by whole-genome sequencing in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE).Journal of global antimicrobial resistance · 2019Article
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- Automated data mining of the electronic health record for investigation of healthcare-associated outbreaks.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
We present a statistical inference model for the detection and characterization of outbreaks of hospital associated infection. The approach combines patient exposures, determined from electronic medical records, and pathogen similarity, determined by whole-genome sequencing, to simultaneously identify probable outbreaks and their root-causes. We show how our model can be used to target isolates for whole-genome sequencing, improving outbreak detection and characterization even without comprehensive sequencing. Additionally, we demonstrate how to learn model parameters from reference data of known outbreaks. We demonstrate model performance using semi-synthetic experiments.
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