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A common variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IVa in isolates from Copenhagen, Denmark, is not detected by the BD GeneOhm methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus assay

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

scientific article

A microbiological evaluation of level of disinfection for flexible cystoscopes protected by disposable endosheaths

scientific article

A nationwide study of comorbidity and risk of reinfection after Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia.

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

A new multiplex PCR for easy screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus SCCmec types I-V.

scientific article published on 02 April 2007

A novel FRET pair for detection of parallel DNA triplexes by the LightCycler

scientific article

A timescale for evolution, population expansion, and spatial spread of an emerging clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article (publication date: 8 April 2010)

An international multicenter study of antimicrobial consumption and resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 15 hospitals in 14 countries

scientific article published in January 2004

An international multicenter study of antimicrobial resistance and typing of hospital Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 21 laboratories in 19 countries or states

scientific article published on January 2004

An outbreak of borderline oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (BORSA) in a dermatological unit

scientific article

An unexpected location of the arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME) in a USA300-related MRSA strain

scientific article

Analytical and clinical performance of the Hologic Aptima HCV Quant Dx Assay for the quantification of HCV RNA in plasma samples

scientific article

Analytical performance of the Hologic Aptima HBV Quant Assay and the COBAS Ampliprep/COBAS TaqMan HBV test v2.0 for the quantification of HBV DNA in plasma samples.

scientific article

Associations between dru Types and SCCmec cassettes

scientific article

Bacterial colonization and healing of venous leg ulcers

scientific article published on 01 December 1996

Bacterial viruses enable their host to acquire antibiotic resistance genes from neighbouring cells

scientific article

Bactericidal effect of penicillin, ampicillin, and amoxicillin alone and in combination with tobramycin against Enterococcus faecalis as determined by kill-kinetic studies

scientific article published on 01 May 1991

Cases of measles in Denmark are caused by reintroduction of virus from abroad

scientific article published in April 2001

Changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Iceland from 2000 to 2008: a challenge to current guidelines

scientific article

Changing epidemiology of pediatric Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in Denmark from 1971 through 2000.

scientific article published in May 2007

Characterisation, dissemination and persistence of gentamicin resistant Escherichia coli from a Danish university hospital to the waste water environment

scientific article published on 4 September 2007

Clinical and analytical evaluation of the new Aptima Mycoplasma genitalium assay, with data on M. genitalium prevalence and antimicrobial resistance in M. genitalium in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 2016.

scientific article

Clonal Spread of Staphylococcus aureus with Reduced Susceptibility to Oxacillin in a Dermatological Hospital Unit

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Clonal relationship of recent invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype f isolates from Denmark and the United States

scientific article published in November 2004

Clostridium difficile in faecal flora after perioperative prophylaxis with ampicillin or ceftriaxone

scientific article published on 01 November 1991

Community-acquired bacteremic acinetobacter calcoaceticus var. anitratus pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 September 1988

Comparing whole-genome sequencing with Sanger sequencing for spa typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Comparison of the Becton Dickinson strand displacement amplification and Cobas Amplicor Roche PCR for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis: pooling versus individual tests.

scientific article published on October 2003

Comparison of the Hologic Aptima HIV-1 Quant Dx Assay to the Roche COBAS Ampliprep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Test v2.0 for the quantification of HIV-1 RNA in plasma samples

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

Comparison of the population excess fraction of Chlamydia trachomatis infection on pelvic inflammatory disease at 12-months in the presence and absence of chlamydia testing and treatment: Systematic review and retrospective cohort analysis

scientific article

Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Strain M1, a Unique t024-ST8-IVa Danish Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Clone.

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for High- Resolution Typing of Enterococcus faecium

scientific article

Detection of mecC methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with a semi-selective enrichment broth

scientific article published in 2014

Determination of Elizabethkingia Diversity by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry and Whole-Genome Sequencing

scientific article

Draft genome sequence of a Kluyvera intermedia isolate from a patient with a pancreatic abscess

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Emergence of vanA Enterococcus faecium in Denmark, 2005-15.

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

Environmental meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) disinfection using dry-mist-generated hydrogen peroxide

scientific article published on 14 July 2008

Epidemic increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Copenhagen

scientific article published in February 2006

Epidemic increase of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark--interventions required now

scientific article published in March 2005

Epidemiology of emerging methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark: a nationwide study in a country with low prevalence of MRSA infection.

scientific article

Erratum for Gudeta et al., The Soil Microbiota Harbors a Diversity of Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing β-Lactamases of Potential Clinical Relevance

scientific article published on 25 March 2016

Erratum to: Evaluating next-generation sequencing for direct clinical diagnostics in diarrhoeal disease.

scientific article

European Society for Clinical Virology - winter meeting.

scientific article

Evaluating next-generation sequencing for direct clinical diagnostics in diarrhoeal disease.

scientific article

Evaluation of the ATB 32 C system for identification of clinical yeast isolates

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Evidence for Human Adaptation and Foodborne Transmission of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Evidence for the evolutionary steps leading to mecA-mediated β-lactam resistance in staphylococci

scientific article

Evolution and Global Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from the Indian Subcontinent

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus resistance to erythromycin in Denmark, 1959 to 1988: comparison with erythromycin-susceptible strains ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1991

Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus resistance to erythromycin in Denmark, 1959 to 1988: correlations between characteristics of erythromycin-resistant bacteraemia strains ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1991

Evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus towards increasing resistance

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Evolutionary Origin of the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec).

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of a kidney stone complicated with Candida albicans septicaemia and endophthalmitis. Case report.

scientific article published in January 1990

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of kidney stones does not induce transient bacteremia. A prospective study. The Copenhagen Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy Study Group.

scientific article

Fatal Septicemia Linked to Transmission of MRSA Clonal Complex 398 in Hospital and Nursing Home, Denmark

scientific article published on May 2016

First outbreak with MRSA in a Danish neonatal intensive care unit: risk factors and control procedures

scientific article

Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article

Fungemia: An increasing problem in a Danish university hospital 1989 to 1994.

scientific article published in February 1995

Genetic characterisation confirms sporadic occurrence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis in Copenhagen, Denmark

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Genital and extra-genital screening for gonorrhoea using the BD Probetec ET system with an in-house PCR method targeting the porA pseudogene as confirmatory test.

scientific article published on January 2012

Genome-wide-analyses of Listeria monocytogenes from food-processing plants reveal clonal diversity and date the emergence of persisting sequence types

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Genomic analysis of 495 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium reveals broad dissemination of a vanA plasmid in more than 19 clones from Copenhagen, Denmark

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Genomics-Based Identification of Microorganisms in Human Ocular Body Fluid.

scientific article

Growth phase-dependent regulation of the global virulence regulator Rot in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 8 August 2009

Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues

scientific article

HIV infection among intravenous drug users in Copenhagen

article

Hepatitis A vaccine. A new convenient single-dose schedule with booster when long-term immunization is warranted

scientific article published in 1994

Hepatitis B core antibody screening in a high prevalence group: comparison of three enzyme immunoassays using receiver operating characteristic analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Hepatitis C virus antibodies in homosexual men and intravenous drug users in Denmark

scientific article published in March 1993

High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study

scientific article

Human metapneumovirus and respiratory syncytial virus in hospitalized danish children with acute respiratory tract infection

scientific article published in January 2004

Identification of a PVL-negative SCCmec-IVa sublineage of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC80 lineage: understanding the clonal origin of CA-MRSA.

scientific article

Increased risk of arterial thromboembolic events after Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: A matched cohort study.

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Increased risk of venous thromboembolism within the first year after Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a nationwide observational matched cohort study

scientific article published on November 2013

Increasing incidence but decreasing in-hospital mortality of adult Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia between 1981 and 2000.

scientific article published in March 2007

Insights into alpha-hemolysin (Hla) evolution and expression among Staphylococcus aureus clones with hospital and community origin

scientific article

Killing curve activity of ciprofloxacin is comparable to synergistic effect of beta-lactam-tobramycin combinations against Haemophilus species endocarditis strains

article

Large-scale testing of women in Copenhagen has not reduced the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infections.

scientific article published on July 2003

Latent tuberculosis in HIV positive, diagnosed by the M. tuberculosis specific interferon-gamma test

scientific article

Low prevalence of the new variant of Chlamydia trachomatis in Denmark

scientific article published on 24 July 2008

Management of recurrent pacemaker-related bacteraemia with small colony variant Staphylococcus aureus in a haemodialysis patient

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Methicillin resistantStaphylococcus aureusemerged long before the introduction of methicillin in to clinical practice

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia, are variants of the Brazilian clone.

scientific article

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): global epidemiology and harmonisation of typing methods.

scientific article

Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis clones: evidence of geographic dissemination

scientific article

Monitoring meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its spread in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013, through routine whole genome sequencing.

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection with ceftriaxone resistance and intermediate resistance to azithromycin, Denmark, 2017.

scientific article published in October 2017

Multiple hospital outbreaks of vanA Enterococcus faecium in Denmark, 2012-13, investigated by WGS, MLST and PFGE.

scientific article published on June 2015

Multiplex real-time PCR and blood culture for identification of bloodstream pathogens in patients with suspected sepsis

scientific article

Nasal carriage of methicillin resistant staphylococci

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Non-Suppurative Bacterial Arthritis Diagnosed by Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Non-spa-typeable clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains are naturally occurring protein A mutants

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

Nosocomial transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Danish Hospitals

scientific article published on 20 April 2012

Novel Pathways for Ameliorating the Fitness Cost of Gentamicin Resistant Small Colony Variants

scientific article

Optimal design of parallel triplex forming oligonucleotides containing Twisted Intercalating Nucleic Acids--TINA.

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

Origins and evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal lineages.

scientific article

Pasteurella haemolytica diagnosis questioned

scientific article published on 01 November 1992

Pelvic inflammatory disease risk following negative results from chlamydia nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) versus non-NAATs in Denmark: A retrospective cohort

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Penicillin resistant pneumococci--not a threat in Denmark yet?

scientific article published on January 26, 1998

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

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Pituitary-Thyroid Axis in Critical Illness*

scientific article published on 01 August 1987

Prevalence of erm gene classes in erythromycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated between 1959 and 1988.

scientific article

Primary pneumocystis infection in infants hospitalized with acute respiratory tract infection.

scientific article published on January 2007

Prostaglandin E2 is a mediator of 5-hydroxytryptamine induced water and electrolyte secretion in the human jejunum.

scientific article

Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A antibodies in rapidly deteriorating chronic leg ulcers

scientific article published in The Lancet

RUCS: rapid identification of PCR primers for unique core sequences

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Rapid increase of genetically diverse methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Copenhagen, Denmark

scientific article

Recently introduced qacA/B genes in Staphylococcus epidermidis do not increase chlorhexidine MIC/MBC.

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Rise and subsequent decline of community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST30-IVc in Copenhagen, Denmark through an effective search and destroy policy

scientific article published in January 2010

Risk of reproductive complications following chlamydia testing: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Denmark.

scientific article published on 08 June 2016

Semi-selective broth improves screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 3 February 2010

SeqNet.org: a European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of microbial pathogens

scientific article published on 12 January 2006

Sequence analysis of the hemagglutinin gene of measles virus isolates in Denmark 1997-1998: no evidence of persistent circulation of measles virus in Denmark.

scientific article published in April 2000

Sexually transmitted infections and use of contraceptives in women living with HIV in Denmark - the SHADE cohort

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Signatures of cytoplasmic proteins in the exoproteome distinguish community- and hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 lineages.

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Splenic abscesses: a review of 20 cases.

scientific article published on January 1990

Stable incidence and continued improvement in short term mortality of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia between 1995 and 2008

scientific article

Staphylococcal aureus Enterotoxin C and Enterotoxin-Like L Associated with Post-partum Mastitis

scientific article published on 07 February 2017

Staphylococcus aureus but not Listeria monocytogenes adapt to triclosan and adaptation correlates with increased fabI expression and agr deficiency

scientific article

Staphylococcus aureus spa type t437: identification of the most dominant community-associated clone from Asia across Europe

scientific article published on 29 October 2014

Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated in 1965 are more susceptible to triclosan than current isolates

scientific article

Structural alterations in the translational attenuator of constitutively expressed ermC genes.

scientific article published on July 1999

Structural variations of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IVa in Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 8 and unrelated lineages

scientific article published on 6 June 2011

Susceptibility of vancomycin-resistant and -sensitive Enterococcus faecium obtained from Danish hospitals to benzalkonium chloride, chlorhexidine and hydrogen peroxide biocides

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

The Soil Microbiota Harbors a Diversity of Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing β-Lactamases of Potential Clinical Relevance

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

The disappearance of multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus in Denmark: changes in strains of the 83A complex between 1969 and 1989.

scientific article published in June 1992

The evolution of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: similarity of genetic backgrounds in historically early methicillin-susceptible and -resistant isolates and contemporary epidemic clones.

scientific article

The most common chromosome aberration detected by high-resolution comparative genomic hybridization in vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia is not seen in vulvar squamous cell carcinoma

The new macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance gene erm(45) is located within a genomic island in Staphylococcus fleurettii

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

The search and destroy strategy prevents spread and long-term carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: results from the follow-up screening of a large ST22 (E-MRSA 15) outbreak in Denmark

scientific article published in September 2010

Two distinct clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with the same USA300 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profile: a potential pitfall for identification of USA300 community-associated MRSA.

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

Ulcer bed infection. Report of a case of enlarging venous leg ulcer colonized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Use of a Regression Model to Study Host-Genomic Determinants of Phage Susceptibility in MRSA.

scientific article

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci at a large university hospital in Denmark.

scientific article published in June 1996

Variations in spa types found in consecutive MRSA isolates from the same patients

scientific article published in 2010

Whole Genome Sequencing of Danish Staphylococcus argenteus Reveals a Genetically Diverse Collection with Clear Separation from Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 9 August 2017

X long-arm deletions. A review of non-mosaic cases studied with banding techniques

scientific article published on January 1984

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[Screening for MRSA in Danish hospitals – does it work?] ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

[Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Feared for a long time, reality now!]

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

erm genes in erythromycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci

article

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