Nature Communications (Jan 2020)
Integrating multiple genomic technologies to investigate an outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter hormaechei
- Leah W. Roberts,
- Patrick N. A. Harris,
- Brian M. Forde,
- Nouri L. Ben Zakour,
- Elizabeth Catchpoole,
- Mitchell Stanton-Cook,
- Minh-Duy Phan,
- Hanna E. Sidjabat,
- Haakon Bergh,
- Claire Heney,
- Jayde A. Gawthorne,
- Jeffrey Lipman,
- Anthony Allworth,
- Kok-Gan Chan,
- Teik Min Chong,
- Wai-Fong Yin,
- Mark A. Schembri,
- David L. Paterson,
- Scott A. Beatson
Affiliations
- Leah W. Roberts
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- Patrick N. A. Harris
- UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland
- Brian M. Forde
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- Nouri L. Ben Zakour
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- Elizabeth Catchpoole
- Pathology Queensland, Central Microbiology
- Mitchell Stanton-Cook
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- Minh-Duy Phan
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- Hanna E. Sidjabat
- Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, The University of Queensland
- Haakon Bergh
- Pathology Queensland, Central Microbiology
- Claire Heney
- Pathology Queensland, Central Microbiology
- Jayde A. Gawthorne
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- Jeffrey Lipman
- UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland
- Anthony Allworth
- Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital
- Kok-Gan Chan
- Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya
- Teik Min Chong
- Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya
- Wai-Fong Yin
- Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya
- Mark A. Schembri
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- David L. Paterson
- Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, The University of Queensland
- Scott A. Beatson
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14139-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an urgent threat to human health. Here, Roberts et al. characterise and monitor an ongoing hospital outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter hormaechei by integrating several technologies for whole-genome sequencing and shotgun metagenomics.
