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| Brandi M LimbagoSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Development of a consensus method for culture of Clostridium difficile from meat and its use in a survey of U.S. retail meatsBrandi Limbago
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, 1600 Clifton Rd N E, MS C16, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Food Microbiol 32:448-51. 2012..Retail meat products (N = 1755) were cultured for C. difficile over 12 months during 2010-2011 at 9 U.S. FoodNet sites. No C. difficile was recovered, although other clostridia were isolated...
Clostridium difficile strains from community-associated infectionsBrandi M Limbago
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS C 16, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 47:3004-7. 2009..Nine toxinotypes (TOX) and 31 PFGE patterns were identified. TOX 0 (48, 52%), TOX III (18, 20%), and TOX V (9, 10%) were the most common; three isolates were nontoxigenic...
IMP-producing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United StatesBrandi M Limbago
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd N E, MS C16, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
J Clin Microbiol 49:4239-45. 2011..PCR and sequence analysis confirmed that these isolates produce IMP-4, an MBL carbapenemase not previously published as present among Enterobacteriaceae in the United States...
Evaluation of the impact of direct plating, broth enrichment, and specimen source on recovery and diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates among HIV-infected outpatientsS K McAllister
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS C16, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
J Clin Microbiol 49:4126-30. 2011..USA500/Iberian and USA300 were the most common MRSA strains recovered, and USA300 was more likely than other strain types to be recovered from the groin than from the nose (P = 0.05)...
Toxinotype V Clostridium difficile in humans and food animalsMichael A Jhung
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1039-45. 2008..Further study is needed to understand the epidemiology of CDAD caused by toxinotype V C. difficile, including the potential of foodborne transmission to humans...
Emergence of resistance among USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing invasive disease in the United StatesLinda K McDougal
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion G 08, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:3804-11. 2010....
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: epidemiology and preventionNeil Gupta
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS A 35, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 53:60-7. 2011..As a result, preventing both CRE transmission and CRE infections have become important public health objectives. This review describes the current epidemiology of CRE in the United States and highlights important prevention strategies...
Accuracy of commercial and reference susceptibility testing methods for detecting vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureusJana M Swenson
Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 47:2013-7. 2009..Only 12 (33.3%) strains for which the VA MICs were 4 microg/ml grew on VScr. The differentiation of isolates for which the VA MICs were 2 or 4 microg/ml was difficult for most systems and methods, including the reference methods...
Multiplex real-time PCR assay for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and associated toxin genesG E Fosheim
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, MS C 16, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 49:3071-3. 2011..Rapid screening and detection of toxins is a useful tool for surveillance studies and outbreak investigations involving large numbers of isolates...
