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Identifying the effect of patient sharing on between-hospital genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Author(s): Chang HH, Dordel J, Donker T, Worby CJ, Feil EJ, Hanage WP, Bentley SD, Huang SS, Lipsitch MJournal: Genome MedPMID: 26873713 February 2016

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most common healthcare-associated pathogens. To examine the role of inter-hospital patient sharing…

Origin and proliferation of multiple-drug resistance in bacterial pathogens.

Author(s): Chang HH, Cohen T, Grad YH, Hanage WP, O'Brien TF, Lipsitch MJournal: Microbiol Mol Biol RevPMID: 25652543 March 2015

Many studies report the high prevalence of multiply drug-resistant (MDR) strains. Because MDR infections are often significantly harder and more…

Sequence tag-based analysis of microbial population dynamics.

Author(s): Abel S, Abel zur Wiesch P, Chang HH, Davis BM, Lipsitch M, Waldor MKJournal: Nat MethodsPMID: 25599549 March 2015

We describe sequence tag-based analysis of microbial populations (STAMP) for characterization of pathogen population dynamics during infection. STAMP analyzes the…

The distribution of pairwise genetic distances: a tool for investigating disease transmission.

Author(s): Worby CJ, Chang HH, Hanage WP, Lipsitch MJournal: GeneticsPMID: 25313129 December 2014

Whole-genome sequencing of pathogens has recently been used to investigate disease outbreaks and is likely to play a growing role…