Got GAS? Ease the Bloat with Real-Time Whole-Genome Sequencing

Authors

Emil P. Lesho, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Erik Snesrud, Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network,Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,Silver Spring,Maryland.
Melissa Bronstein, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Margaret Pettis, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Ana Ong, Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Rosslyn Maybank, Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Yoon Kwak, Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Anthony Jones, Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Kelly Vore, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Patrick McGann, Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network,Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,Silver Spring,Maryland.
Mary Hinkle, Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network,Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,Silver Spring,Maryland.

Department

Infectious Diseases

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Infection Control And Hospital Epidemiology

First Page

760

Last Page

762

DOI

10.1017/ice.2018.73

Volume

39

Issue

6

Publication Date

6-1-2018

Medical Subject Headings

Cross Infection (microbiology); Disease Outbreaks; Hospitals, Community; Humans; Streptococcal Infections (diagnosis); Streptococcus pyogenes (genetics, isolation & purification); Surgical Wound Infection (microbiology); Whole Genome Sequencing (economics)

PubMed ID

29606173

Recommended Citation

Lesho, E. P., Snesrud, E., Bronstein, M., Pettis, M., Ong, A., Maybank, R., Kwak, Y., Jones, A., Vore, K., McGann, P., & Hinkle, M. (2018). Got GAS? Ease the Bloat with Real-Time Whole-Genome Sequencing. Infection Control And Hospital Epidemiology, 39 (6), 760-762. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.73