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Cookson, B.

(Barry Cookson)


screening center aureus patient infection staphylococcus methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus control study protocol typing analysis laboratory hospital strain procedure microbiol decolonisation result fragment j hosp staff admission meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus strategy staphylococcus aureus number pattern prevention image microbiology difference health antimicrobial surveillance group data sets disease pulsed-field gel electrophoresis carriage table cookson effectiveness mrsa screening electrophoresis healthcare reproducibility value colonisation society cost effectiveness european system transmission method bio image software interpretation mupirocin similarity software isolation lambda colonised review culture mrsa-positive meticillin-resistant agent typing systems guideline hospital admission gel images interlaboratory resistance signi restriction dna macrorestriction fragments scotland restriction fragment positions panel




5 Most Recent Publications

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Screening and decolonisation (Article)
Cookson, B. Bonten, M.J.M. Mackenzie, F.M. Skov, R. Verbrugh, H.A. Tacconelli, E.
2011-03-01
Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology (Article)
Belkum, A.F. van Tassios, P.T. Brisse, S. Struelens, M.J. Dijkshoorn, L. Haeggman, S. Cookson, B. Fry, N.K. Fussing, V. Green, J.A. Feil, E. Gerner-smidt, P.
2007-10-01
Evaluation of molecular typing methods in characterizing a European collection of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains: The HARMONY collection (Article)
Cookson, B. Robinson, D.A. Vuopio-Varkila, J. Cuny, C. Witte, W. Tassios, P.T. Legakis, N.J. Leeuwen, W.B. van Belkum, A.F. van Vindel, A. Garaizar, J. Haeggman, S. Monk, A.B. Olsson-Liljequist, B. Ransjo, U. Muller-Premru, M. Hryniewicz, W. Rossney, A. O'Connell, B.C. Short, B.D. Thomas, J. O'Hanlon, S. Enright, M.C. Murchan, S. Deplano, A. Ryck, R. de Struelens, M.J. Scheel, C. Fussing, V. Salmenlinna, S.
2007-06-01
Current Trends in the Epidemiological typing of clinically relevant microbes in Europe (Article)
Maquelin, K. Cookson, B. Tassios, P.T. Belkum, A.F. van
2007-04-01
Assessment of resolution and intercenter reproducibility of results of genotyping Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SmaI macrorestriction fragments: a multicenter study (Article)
Belkum, A.F. van Salmenlinna, S. Struelens, M. Vuopio-Varkila, J. Tenover, F.C. Steward, C. Legakis, N. Talens, A. O'Brien, F. Tassios, P. Ryck, R. de Grubb, W. Kooistra, M. Kaufmann, M.E. Verbrugh, H.A. Leeuwen, W.B. van Cookson, B. Witte, W. El Solh, N. Forey, F. Etienne, J. Goering, R. Morvan, A.
1998-01-01