New preprint: using genetics to analyse ESBL infections in a neonatal ICU ward In this preprint, Melody Parker as part of her DPhil, has analysed a series of infections in a neonatal intensive care unit. At the time there was concern that this could be an outbreak; if so the ICU team would want to…
New preprint: using genetics to analyse ESBL infections in a neonatal ICU ward
In this preprint, Melody Parker as part of her DPhil, has analysed a series of infections in a neonatal intensive care unit. At the time there was concern that this could be an outbreak; if so the ICU team would want to improve their infection control measures. Whole genome sequencing can give you the really fine-grained resolution to be able to say that these two infections likely came from the same source or, more subtly for Enterobacterales, that the plasmid carrying the AMR gene in these two different species is identical and therefore is likely to have hopped from one to the other in the hospital environment.
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