Benchtop Whole-Genome Sequencing for Identification of Nosocomial Outbreaks in Tanzania

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2016 May;37(5):622-3. doi: 10.1017/ice.2016.28. Epub 2016 Feb 22.

Authors

Tolbert Sonda¹, Happiness Kumburu¹, Marco van Zwetselaar¹, Johanne Ahrenfeldt², Michael Alifrangis³, Ole Lund², Gibson Kibiki¹, Frank M Aarestrup⁴

Affiliations

¹ 1Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute,Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre,Moshi,Tanzania.
² 3Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis,Technical University of Denmark,Copenhagen,Denmark.
³ 4Centre for Medical Parasitology,Institute of International Health, Immunology, and Microbiology,University of Copenhagen,Copenhagen,Denmark.
⁴ 6Centre for Genomic Epidemiology,Technical University of Denmark,Copenhagen,Denmark.

PMID: 26899363
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.28

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cross Infection / epidemiology*
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
Tanzania / epidemiology