Molecular Epidemiology of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections and Concordance with Colonization Isolates.

Thomsen IP, Kadari P, Soper NR, Riddell S, Kiska D, Creech CB, Shaw J. Molecular Epidemiology of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections and Concordance with Colonization Isolates. The Journal of pediatrics. 2019 Dec;210(210). 173-177. PMID: 30961989 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC6592716 NIHMSID: NIHMS1526489.

Abstract

To characterize Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from hospitalized children and to determine the concordance between colonizing and invasive isolates.