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Antibiotic susceptibility and molecular epidemiology of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: An international survey

scientific article published on 3 September 2013

Application and evaluation of double digest selective label (DDSL) typing technique for Pseudomonas aeruginosa hospital isolates

scientific article published on 23 December 2007

Automated Incubation and Digital Image Analysis of Chromogenic Media Using Copan WASPLab Enables Rapid Detection of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Biodiversity of amoebae and amoeba-resisting bacteria in a hospital water network

scientific article published in April 2006

Carriage of Pneumocystis carinii by immunosuppressed patients and molecular typing of the organisms

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Changing molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a small geographic area over an eight-year period.

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Changing molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an Algerian hospital.

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Characterization of cell-to-cell signaling-deficient Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains colonizing intubated patients

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Characterization of the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec insertion site in 108 isolates lacking the mecA gene and identified as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by the Xpert MRSA assay

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Clostridioides difficile infection in dogs with chronic-recurring diarrhea responsive to dietary changes

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Colonization With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci After Discharge From an Epidemic Ward: Results of Outpatient Contact Screening by Visiting Nurses.

scientific article published on June 2016

Combining Standard Molecular Typing and Whole Genome Sequencing to Investigate Pseudomonas aeruginosa Epidemiology in Intensive Care Units

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Common skin infection due to Panton-Valentine leucocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus strains in asylum seekers from Eritrea: a genome-based investigation of a suspected outbreak

scientific article published on 6 June 2016

Comparative genomics of epidemic versus sporadic Staphylococcus aureus strains does not reveal molecular markers for epidemicity

scientific article published on 31 October 2009

Comparison of Whole Genome (wg-) and Core Genome (cg-) MLST (BioNumericsTM) Versus SNP Variant Calling for Epidemiological Investigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Comparison of double-locus sequence typing (DLST) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for the investigation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations

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Cooccurrence of predominant Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive sequence type (ST) 152 and multidrug-resistant ST 241 Staphylococcus aureus clones in Nigerian hospitals.

scientific article published on 15 July 2009

Current Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Elderly French People: Troublesome Clones on the Horizon

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

DNA microarray analysis reveals variability of accessory genes among isolates recovered during an MRSA outbreak

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Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cell-to-cell signals in lung tissue of cystic fibrosis patients

scientific article published in March 2002

Determination of taxonomic status of pathogenic and nonpathogenic Entamoeba histolytica zymodemes using isoenzyme analysis

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Determination of the Copy Number of the Nuclear rDNA and Beta-tubulin Genes of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis Using PCR Multicompetitors

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Development and evaluation of double locus sequence typing for molecular epidemiological investigations of Clostridium difficile

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Development of a Molecular Typing Method for Pneumocystis carinii sp.f. hominis

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Development of a molecular typing method for Pneumocystis carinii sp.f. hominis

scientific article published in January 1997

Diversity of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements in predominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in a small geographic area

scientific article published on 16 August 2010

Double-Locus Sequence Typing Using clfB and spa, a Fast and Simple Method for Epidemiological Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Double-locus sequence typing using clfB and spa, a fast and simple method for epidemiological typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 8 November 2006

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Carbapenemase-Producing Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Strains Isolated from Albanian and Togolese Patients

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Early detection of extended-spectrum β-lactamase from blood culture positive for an Enterobacteriaceae using βLACTA test

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Ecological temporal stability of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage

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Epidemiological validation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: results of a nation-wide survey in Switzerland.

scientific article published in May 2002

Evaluating the use of whole-genome sequencing for outbreak investigations in the lack of closely related reference genome

scientific article published on 20 January 2018

Evaluation of MRSA-Screen, a simple anti-PBP 2a slide latex agglutination kit, for rapid detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

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Evaluation of a novel medium for screening specimens from hospitalized patients to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on August 2003

Evaluation of adding a second marker to overcome Staphylococcus aureus spa typing homoplasies

scientific article published on 18 January 2012

Evaluation of the performance of rapid tests for screening carriers of acquired ESBL producers and their impact on the turnaround time

scientific article published on 24 October 2020

Evaluation of three chromogenic media (MRSA-ID, MRSA-Select and CHROMagar MRSA) and ORSAB for surveillance cultures of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in December 2006

Evaluation of three consecutive versions of a commercial rapid PCR test to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Evidence for clonal evolution among highly polymorphic genes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Evolution and Population Dynamics of Clonal Complex 152 Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Exogenous sources of pseudomonas aeruginosa in intensive care unit patients: implementation of infection control measures and follow-up with molecular typing

scientific article published on 21 August 2006

Fast and simple epidemiological typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa using the double-locus sequence typing (DLST) method.

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Faucets as a reservoir of endemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization/infections in intensive care units

scientific article published on 15 July 2004

Frequency and molecular diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa upon admission and during hospitalization: a prospective epidemiologic study.

scientific article published on May 1998

Genetic diversity and ecological success of Staphylococcus aureus strains colonizing humans

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Genetic diversity of Pneumocystis carinii in HIV-positive and -negative patients as revealed by PCR–SSCP typing

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Genotyping of European isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by fluorescent amplified-fragment length polymorphism analysis (FAFLP) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing

scientific article published in July 2001

Global emergence of the widespread Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST235 clone

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Hand soap contamination by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a tertiary care hospital: no evidence of impact on patients.

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High genetic diversity of Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care hospital in Southwest Nigeria

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

High proportion of wrongly identified methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers by use of a rapid commercial PCR assay due to presence of staphylococcal cassette chromosome element lacking the mecA gene

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High-Quality Complete Genome Sequences of Three Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates Retrieved from Patients Hospitalized in Intensive Care Units

Impact of recombination on genetic variability within Staphylococcus aureus clonal complexes

scientific article published on 21 July 2010

Importation of Acinetobacter baumannii into a burn unit: a recurrent outbreak of infection associated with widespread environmental contamination

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Improving the quality and workflow of bacterial genome sequencing and analysis: paving the way for a Switzerland-wide molecular epidemiological surveillance platform

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Intercenter reproducibility of binary typing for Staphylococcus aureus

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Investigation of classical epidemiological links between patients harbouring identical, non-predominant meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genotypes and lessons for epidemiological tracking.

scientific article published on 7 July 2011

Legionella pneumophila aortitis in a heart transplant recipient

scientific article published in March 2007

MRSA screening by the Xpert MRSA PCR assay: pooling samples of the nose, throat, and groin increases the sensitivity of detection without increasing the laboratory costs.

scientific article published on 10 November 2012

Marked increase in incidence for bloodstream infections due to Escherichia coli, a side effect of previous antibiotic therapy in the elderly

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): incidence is growing in French-speaking Switzerland

scientific article published in April 2001

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Phylogenetic Relatedness Between European Epidemic Clones and Swiss Sporadic Strains

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Molecular Epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Intensive Care Units - A Review

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Molecular epidemiology of Clostridioides (previously Clostridium) difficile isolates from a university hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Molecular epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in intensive care units over a 10-year period (1998-2007)

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a low-incidence hospital over a 4-year period

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from 4 Cuban hospitals.

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Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Switzerland: sampling only invasive isolates does not allow a representative description of the local diversity of clones.

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Molecular epidemiology of predominant clones and sporadic strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Switzerland and comparison with European epidemic clones.

scientific article published in July 2002

Molecular typing methods and their discriminatory power

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

Molecular typing of Clostridioides difficile from frozen stool samples to investigate cross-transmissions: A proof of concept

scientific article published in 2022

Multicenter evaluation of epidemiological typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains by repetitive-element PCR analysis. The European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers of the ESCMID.

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New genotyping method discovers sustained nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in an intensive care burn unit

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Nosocomial infections and pseudoinfections from contaminated bronchoscopes: two-year follow up using molecular markers

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

O036: Antibiotic resistance and molecular epidemiology of panton valentine leukocidin positive methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (PVL+-MRSA): an international survey.

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O071: Standard precautions (SP) vs ‘search-and-destroy’ strategy for control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nursing homes (NH): a randomized controlled study

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Occult nosocomial infections

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Outbreak of human listeriosis associated with tomme cheese in northwest Switzerland, 2005

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Outbreak of human listeriosis associated with tomme cheese in northwest Switzerland, 2005.

scientific article published in June 2006

Panton-valentine leukocidin and staphyloccoccal skin infections in schoolchildren

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Phenotypic and Genomic Analyses of Burkholderia stabilis Clinical Contamination, Switzerland.

scientific article published in June 2019

Phylogeographical Analysis Reveals the Historic Origin, Emergence, and Evolutionary Dynamics of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST228

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Poor value of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to investigate long-term scale epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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Population genetic analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa using multilocus sequence typing

scientific article published in January 2005

Potential coinfections complicate typing of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis

scientific article published on October 1998

Quantitative antibiogram as a typing method for the prospective epidemiological surveillance and control of MRSA: comparison with molecular typing

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Quantitative antibiogram typing using inhibition zone diameters compared with ribotyping for epidemiological typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on October 1994

Rapid PCR-single-strand conformation polymorphism method to differentiate and estimate relative abundance of Pneumocystis carinii special forms infecting rats

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Reemergence of gentamicin-susceptible strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in France: a phylogenetic approach.

scientific article published in June 2001

Ribotyping of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: discriminatory power and usefulness as a tool for epidemiological studies.

scientific article published on January 1993

Risk of Borrelia burgdorferi infection in western Switzerland following a tick bite

scientific article published on 24 July 2004

Rodents are carriers of Clostridioides difficile strains similar to those isolated from piglets

scientific article published on 09 April 2018

Short term evolution of a highly transmissible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone (ST228) in a tertiary care hospital.

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Staphylococcus aureus clfB and spa alleles of the repeat regions are segregated into major phylogenetic lineages

scientific article published on 25 June 2009

The Evolution and Dynamics of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

The Stealthy Superbug: the Role of Asymptomatic Enteric Carriage in Maintaining a Long-Term Hospital Outbreak of ST228 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

The use of molecular typing for epidemiological surveillance and investigation of endemic nosocomial infections.

scientific article published in September 2004

Typing methods to approach Pneumocystis carinii genetic heterogeneity

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Typing of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis by PCR-SSCP to indicate a high frequency of co-infections

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Typing of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis by single-strand conformation polymorphism of four genomic regions

scientific article published on December 1997

Typing of Pneumocystis carinii sp.f. hominis by PCR-SSCP of Four Genomic Regions

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Universal screening and decolonization for control of MRSA in nursing homes: a cluster randomized controlled study.

scientific article published on April 2015

Universal screening and decolonization for control of MRSA in nursing homes: follow-up of a cluster randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Unprecedented nosocoimal spread os vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a tertiary-care hospital in Switzerland

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Unusual spread of a penicillin-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in a geographic area of low incidence

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Use of an automated multiple-locus, variable-number tandem repeat-based method for rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus isolates

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Usefulness of double locus sequence typing (DLST) for regional and international epidemiological surveillance of methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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Value of the comparative enzyme-linked immunofiltration assay for early neonatal diagnosis of congenital Toxoplasma infection

scientific article published in November 1999

Vancomycine-resistant enterocci (VRE) : a new reality in our hospitals

scientific article published in April 2018

Very low prevalence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying the mecC gene in western Switzerland.

scientific article published on 4 February 2013

Water disinfection with ozone, copper and silver ions, and temperature increase to control Legionella: seven years of experience in a university teaching hospital.

scientific article published in May 2005

Which anatomical sites should be sampled for screening of MRSA carriage by culture or by rapid PCR test?

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Which anatomical sites should be sampled for screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by culture or by rapid PCR test?

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Whole-Genome Sequencing Reveals the Contribution of Long-Term Carriers in Staphylococcus aureus Outbreak Investigation.

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Whole-genome sequencing revealed independent emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium causing sequential outbreaks over 3 years in a tertiary care hospital

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

[Residual bacterial contamination of rhinoscopes used in ENT consultation after cleaning with a pad impregnated with a disinfectant]

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

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