Epidemiological characterization of a nosocomial outbreak of extended spectrum β‐lactamase Escherichia coli ST‐131 confirms the clinical value of core genome multilocus sequence typing

Hanna Woksepp,Anna Ryberg,Linda Berglind,Thomas B. Schön,Jan Söderman

Epidemiological characterization of a nosocomial outbreak of extended spectrum β‐lactamase Escherichia coli ST‐131 confirms the clinical value of core genome multilocus sequence typing

2017

Hanna Woksepp
Anna Ryberg
Linda Berglind
Thomas B. Schön
Jan Söderman

Enhanced precision of epidemiological typing in clinically suspected nosocomial outbreaks is crucial. Our aim was to investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis and core genom ...

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Typing
Escherichia coli
Biology
Multilocus sequence typing
Single-nucleotide polymorphism
Genetics
Genome
Whole genome sequencing
Outbreak
SNP
Virology
Epidemiology

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