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

Laurence Senn, Olivier Clerc, Giorgio Zanetti, Patrick Basset, Guy Prod’hom, Nicola C. Gordon, Anna E. Sheppard, Derrick W. Crook, Richard James, Harry A. Thorpe, Edward J. Feil, Dominique S. Blanc
Alex Ven Belkum, Editor
Laurence Senn
aHospital Preventive Medicine Service, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Olivier Clerc
aHospital Preventive Medicine Service, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Giorgio Zanetti
aHospital Preventive Medicine Service, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Patrick Basset
aHospital Preventive Medicine Service, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Guy Prod’hom
bInstitute of Microbiology, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Nicola C. Gordon
cNIHR Oxford Biomedical Research, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Anna E. Sheppard
cNIHR Oxford Biomedical Research, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Derrick W. Crook
cNIHR Oxford Biomedical Research, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Richard James
dDepartment of Physics and Centre for Networks and Collective Behaviour, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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Harry A. Thorpe
eDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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Edward J. Feil
eDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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Dominique S. Blanc
aHospital Preventive Medicine Service, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02039-15
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02039-15
PubMed 
26787833

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History 
  • Received November 19, 2015
  • Accepted November 23, 2015
  • Published online January 19, 2016.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright © 2016 Senn et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Editors and / or Reviewers 
  • Alex Ven Belkum, Editor, bioMérieux

Author Information

  1. Laurence Senna,
  2. Olivier Clerca,
  3. Giorgio Zanettia,
  4. Patrick Basseta,
  5. Guy Prod’homb,
  6. Nicola C. Gordonc,
  7. Anna E. Sheppardc,
  8. Derrick W. Crookc,
  9. Richard Jamesd,
  10. Harry A. Thorpee,
  11. Edward J. Feile,
  12. Dominique S. Blanca
  1. aHospital Preventive Medicine Service, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  2. bInstitute of Microbiology, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  3. cNIHR Oxford Biomedical Research, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
  4. dDepartment of Physics and Centre for Networks and Collective Behaviour, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
  5. eDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
  • Address correspondence to Dominique Blanc, Dominique.Blanc{at}chuv.ch.
  • Citation Senn L, Clerc O, Zanetti G, Basset P, Prod’hom G, Gordon NC, Sheppard AE, Crook DW, James R, Thorpe HA, Feil EJ, Blanc DS. 2016. The stealthy superbug: the role of asymptomatic enteric carriage in maintaining a long-term hospital outbreak of ST228 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 7(1):e02039-15. doi:10.1128/mBio.02039-15.

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