Whole Genome Sequencing of a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Pseudo-Outbreak in a Professional Football Team.

Authors

Deverick J. Anderson
Simon R. Harris
Eliot Godofsky
Todd Toriscelli
Thomas H. Rude
Kevin Elder
Daniel J. Sexton
Elliot J. Pellman
Thom Mayer, George Washington UniversityFollow
Vance G. Fowler
Sharon J. Peacock

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

12-1-2014

Journal

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volume

Volume 1, Issue 3

Issue

3

Abstract

Two American football players on the same team were diagnosed with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin and soft tissue infections on the same day. Our investigation, including whole genome sequencing, confirmed that players did not transmit MRSA to one another nor did they acquire the MRSA from a single source within the training facility.

Comments

Reproduced with permission of Oxford Journals. Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Creative Commons License

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APA Citation

Anderson, D.J., Harris, S.R., Godofsky, E., Toriscelli, T., Rude, T.H., Elder, K., Sexton, D.J., Pellman, E.J., Mayer, T., Fowler, V.G. Jr., Peacock, S.J. Whole Genome Sequencing of a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Pseudo-Outbreak in a Professional Football Team. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 1(3)

Peer Reviewed

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