Examination of 388 Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Intensive Care Unit Patients

Timileyin Adedrian; Stephanie Hitchcock; Lyndsay M O'Hara; Jane M Michalski; J Kristie Johnson; David P Calfee; Loren G Miller; Tracy H Hazen; David A Rasko; Anthony D Harris

doi:10.1128/MRA.01246-19

Examination of 388 Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Intensive Care Unit Patients

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 14;8(46):e01246-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01246-19.

Authors

Timileyin Adedrian¹, Stephanie Hitchcock², Lyndsay M O'Hara¹, Jane M Michalski^{3

4}, J Kristie Johnson^{2

4}, David P Calfee⁵, Loren G Miller⁶, Tracy H Hazen^{3

4}, David A Rasko^{7

4}, Anthony D Harris¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁶ LA Biomedical Research Center at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
⁷ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA [email protected].

Abstract

We have examined the draft genomes of 388 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates obtained from intensive care unit patients at three geographically distributed hospitals to determine genomic diversity associated with potential health care worker-associated transmission.

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