Articles
Porphyre T, Giotis ES, Lloyd DH, Stärk KDC. A Metapopulation Model to Assess the Capacity of Spread of Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in Humans. PLoS ONE 2012 Oct 24; 7(10): e47504.
Alex J. McCarthy, Adam A. Witney, Katherine A. Gould, Arshnee Moodley, Luca Guardabassi, Andreas Voss, Olivier Denis, Els M. Broens, Jason Hinds, and Jodi A. Lindsay. The Distribution of Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) in MRSA CC398 Is Associated with Both Host and Country. Genome Biol. Evol. 2011 Sept 7. (3):1164–1174.
van Cleef BA, Graveland H, Haenen AP, van de Giessen AW, Heederik D, Wagenaar JA, Kluytmans JA. Persistence of livestock-associated MRSA after short term occupational exposure to pigs and veal calves.J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Jan 12. [Epub ahead of print]
Moodley A, Latronico F, Guardabassi L. Experimental colonization of pigs with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): insights into the colonization and transmission of livestock-associated MRSA. Epidemiol Infect. 2010 Dec 15:1-7. [Epub ahead of print]
Hallin M, De Mendonça R, Denis O, Lefort A, El Garch F, Butaye P, Hermans K, Struelens MJ. Diversity of accessory genome of human and livestock-associated ST398 methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. Infect Genet Evol. 2011 Mar;11(2):290-9. Epub 2010 Dec 9
Stegger M, Lindsay JA, Moodley A, Skov R, Broens EM, Guardabassi L. Rapid PCR detection of Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 by targeting the restriction-modification system encoding sau1hsdS1. J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Dec 1. [Epub ahead of print]
Van Cleef BA, Verkade EJ, Wulf MW, Buiting AG, Voss A, Huijsdens XW, van Pelt W, Mulders MN, Kluytmans JA. Prevalence of livestock-associated MRSA in communities with high pig-densities in The Netherlands. PLoS One. 2010 Feb 25;5(2):e9385.
McCarthy AJ, Lindsay JA. Genetic variation in Staphylococcus aureus surface and immune evasion genes is lineage associated: implications for vaccine design and host-pathogen interactions. BMC Microbiol. 2010 Jun 15;10(1):173
Köck R, Becker K, Cookson B, van Gemert-Pijnen JE, Harbarth S, Kluytmans J, Mielke M, Peters G, Skov RL, Struelens MJ, Tacconelli E, Navarro Torné A, Witte W, Friedrich AW. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe. PLoS OneEuro Surveill. 2010;15(41):pii=19688. (PILGRIM co-author)
Moodley A, Nielsen SS, Guardabassi L. Effects of tetracycline and zinc on selection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sequence type 398 in pigs. Vet Microbiol. 2011 May 20.
Giotis ES, Loeffler A, Lindsay JA, Lloyd DH. Reduced sensitivity of oxacillin-screening agar for the detection of MRSA ST398 from colonized pigs. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Jun 15. [Epub ahead of print]
Posters in congresses
The Pilgrim Project: Preventing community and nosocomial spread and Infection with MRSA ST-398 instruments for accelerated controL and inteGrated RIsk Management of antimicrobial resistance. Giotis E. et al. Presented at 3rd Symposium on Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and the Environment (ARAE2009). June 1-3, 2009.
Multistrain S. aureus Microarrays to Investigate Host Specificity. Alex J. McCarthy and Jodi A. Lindsay. ASM-ESCMID Conference on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococci in Animals. September 22-25, 2009, London, England.
The Pilgrim Project: Preventing community and nosocomial spread and Infection with MRSA ST-398 instruments for accelerated controL and inteGrated RIsk Management of antimicrobial resistance. Garcia-Graells et al. Presented at 20th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Diseases (ECCMID), April 10-13, 2010.
Identification of Self-Decontaminating Photocatalytic Surface Agents effective Against Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST 398. Giotis et al. Presented at 2nd ASM Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance in Zoonotic Bacteria and Foodborne Pathogens in Animals, Humans and the Environment, June 8 – 11, 2010,Toronto, Canada.
Clonal spread of MRSA CC398 sublineages within and between Danish pig farms. Espinosa-Góngora et al. Presented at 2nd ASM Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance in Zoonotic Bacteria and Foodborne Pathogens in Animals, Humans and the Environment, June 8 – 11, 2010,Toronto, Canada.
Distribution and variation of SCCmec elements carried by livestock-associated MRSA isolates, Denmark. Larsen Jesper et al. 14th International Symposium on Staphylococcal Infections, 6-9 September 2010 Bath, UK.
High occurrence of MRSA strains from diverse genetic background among Belgian Veterinarians. Garcia-Graells C. et al. 14th International Symposium on Staphylococcal Infections, 6-9 September 2010 Bath, UK.
A gnobiotic model to study the colonisation of piglets with MRSA ST 398 and the effects of bacterial interfere. Giotis et al. 14th International Symposium on Staphylococcal Infections, 6-9 September 2010 Bath, UK.
A novel 64-strain S. aureus Microarray: Desing, Validation and Investigation of Host Specificity. McCarthy A. J. et al. 14th International Symposium on Staphylococcal Infections, 6-9 September 2010 Bath, UK.
S. aureus CC398 specific detection by targeting the restriction-modification system enconding sau1hsdS1 gene. Stegger M. et al. 14th International Symposium on Staphylococcal Infections, 6-9 September 2010 Bath, UK.
Detection, Molecular Characterization and Risk factors Analysis of MRSA ST398 in Belgian Veterinarians. Garcia-Graells C. et al. 4th Congress of European Microbiologists. FEMS, Federation of European Microbiological Societies, June 26-30, 2011 Geneva, Switzerland.