Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology/ Outbreaks/ Transmission

Genomics|Update|Infectious Diseases

Volume 35  Number 4  July 23-30, 2015

Epidemiology/ Outbreaks/ Transmission

Asymptomatic transmission and the resurgence of Bordetella pertussis.
Althouse BM et al. BMC Med 2015 (1) 146

Whole genome sequencing shows a low proportion of tuberculosis disease Is attributable to known close contacts in rural Malawi.
Glynn JR et al. PLoS ONE 2015 (7) e0132840

Outbreak investigation identifies a single Listeria monocytogenes strain in sheep with different clinical manifestations, soil and water
Dreyer M, et al. Vet Microbiol 2015; 179: 69-75.

A large-scale community-based outbreak of paratyphoid fever caused by hospital-derived transmission in Southern China.
Yan Meiying et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015 Jul (7) e0003859

Genomic epidemiology of a protracted hospital outbreak caused by a toxin A negative, Clostridium difficile sublineage PCR ribotype 017 strain in London, England.
Cairns MD et al. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2015 Jul 15.

Outbreak of vanB vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium colonization in a neonatal service.
Lister DM et al. Am J Infect Control 2015 Jul 16.

Molecular epidemiology of hospital outbreak of Middle East Respiratory syndrome, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2014
Fagbo S, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, Nov 2015. ]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2111.150944