Cross-transmission is not the source of new Mycobacterium abscessus infections in a multi-centre cohort of cystic fibrosis patients
Mycobacterium abscessus is an extensively drug resistant pathogen that causes pulmonary disease particularly in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Identifying direct patient-to-patient transmission of M. abscessus is critically important in directing infection control policy for the management of risk in CF patients. A variety of clinical labs have used molecular epidemiology to investigate transmission. However there is still conflicting evidence as to how M. abscessus is acquired and whether cross-transmission occurs. Recently labs have applied whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to investigate this further and in this study we investigate whether WGS can reliably identify cross-transmission in M. abscessus.
Keywords
Mycobacterium abscessus, Cross-transmission, cystic fibrosisItem Type | Dataset |
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Capture method | Experiment |
Date | 19 June 2019 |
Language(s) of written materials | English |
Creator(s) |
Doyle, RM |
LSHTM Faculty/Department | Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Clinical Research |
Participating Institutions | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom |
Date Deposited | 22 Jul 2019 10:48 |
Last Modified | 08 Jul 2021 12:50 |
Publisher | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
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