Whole-Genome Sequencing for the Investigation of a Hospital Outbreak of MRSA in China

MRSA Clonal Complex 22 Strains Harboring Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin (TSST-1) Are Endemic in the Primary Hospital in Gaza, Palestine

(2015) Nahed Al Laham et al.   PLoS One

Comparative genomics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST239: distinct geographical variants in Beijing and Hong Kong

(2014) Zheng Wang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Predicting the virulence of MRSA from its genome sequence

(2014) M. Laabei et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Prediction of Staphylococcus aureus Antimicrobial Resistance by Whole-Genome Sequencing

(2014) N. C. Gordon et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Air and surface contamination patterns of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on eight acute hospital wards

(2014) E. Creamer et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Molecular tracing of the emergence, diversification, and transmission of S. aureus sequence type 8 in a New York community

(2014) A.-C. Uhlemann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Whole Genome Sequencing of a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Pseudo-Outbreak in a Professional Football Team

(2014) Deverick J. Anderson et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Whole-Genome Sequencing Shows That Patient-to-Patient Transmission Rarely Accounts for Acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus in an Intensive Care Unit

(2013) J. R. Price et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The epidemiology and molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant staphylococci sampled from a healthy Jordanian population

(2013) A. G. AL-BAKRI et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

National Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in China Highlights a Still-Evolving Epidemiology with 15 Novel Emerging Multilocus Sequence Types

(2013) Meng Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Within-Host Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus during Asymptomatic Carriage

(2013) Tanya Golubchik et al.   PLoS One

Mobile Genetic Element SCCmec-encoded psm-mec RNA Suppresses Translation of agrA and Attenuates MRSA Virulence

(2013) Chikara Kaito et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Comparative Whole-Genome Mapping To Determine Staphylococcus aureus Genome Size, Virulence Motifs, and Clonality

(2012) S. K. Shukla et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Whole-genome sequencing for analysis of an outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a descriptive study

(2012) Simon R Harris et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

MRSA epidemic linked to a quickly spreading colonization and virulence determinant

(2012) Min Li et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Rapid Whole-Genome Sequencing for Investigation of a Neonatal MRSA Outbreak

(2012) Claudio U. Köser et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Phylogeographic variation in recombination rates within a global clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2012) Santiago Castillo-Ramírez et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Microbial Genomics and Infectious Diseases

(2011) David A. Relman   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Whole-Genome Sequencing and Social-Network Analysis of a Tuberculosis Outbreak

(2011) Jennifer L. Gardy et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Fatal S. aureus Hemorrhagic Pneumonia: Genetic Analysis of a Unique Clinical Isolate Producing both PVL and TSST-1

(2011) Zhi Li et al.   PLoS One

Are diagnostic and public health bacteriology ready to become branches of genomic medicine?

(2011) Mark J Pallen et al.   Genome Medicine

Bacterial epidemiology and biology - lessons from genome sequencing

(2011) Julian Parkhill et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

(2010) A. McKenna et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Epidemic meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (EMRSA-15) variants detected in healthy and diseased individuals in India

(2010) S. Nadig et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Origin of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strain

(2010) Chen-Shan Chin et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread

(2010) S. R. Harris et al.   SCIENCE

Predominance of the Hungarian clone (ST 239-III) among hospital-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered throughout mainland China

(2009) B.L. Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic

(2009) Gavin J. D. Smith et al.   NATURE

Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli

(2009) Jeffrey E. Barrick et al.   NATURE

Molecular Evidence for Spread of Two Major Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones with a Unique Geographic Distribution in Chinese Hospitals

(2008) Y. Liu et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

A comparison of homologous recombination rates in bacteria and archaea

(2008) Michiel Vos et al.   ISME Journal

High-throughput sequencing provides insights into genome variation and evolution in Salmonella Typhi

(2008) Kathryn E Holt et al.   NATURE GENETICS