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SUBMITTER: Stanton RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7448633 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stanton Richard A RA McAllister Gillian G Daniels Jonathan B JB Breaker Erin E Vlachos Nicholas N Gable Paige P Moulton-Meissner Heather H Halpin Alison Laufer AL
Journal of clinical microbiology 20200824 9
<i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> is an opportunistic human pathogen that frequently causes health care-associated infections (HAIs). Due to its metabolic diversity and ability to form biofilms, this Gram-negative nonfermenting bacterium can persist in the health care environment, which can lead to prolonged HAI outbreaks. We describe the creation of a core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) scheme to provide a stable platform for the rapid comparison of <i>P. aeruginosa</i> isolates using w ...[more]