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Barbro Olsson-Liljequist
Researcher at Swedish Institute
Publications - 65
Citations - 13140
Barbro Olsson-Liljequist is an academic researcher from Swedish Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enterococcus faecium & Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 65 publications receiving 10706 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbro Olsson-Liljequist include Public Health Agency of Sweden & University of Geneva.
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Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance
A-P Magiorakos,Arjun Srinivasan,R B Carey,Yehuda Carmeli,Matthew E. Falagas,Matthew E. Falagas,Christian G. Giske,Stéphan Juergen Harbarth,Janet F. Hindler,Gunnar Kahlmeter,Barbro Olsson-Liljequist,David L. Paterson,Louis B. Rice,John Stelling,Marc Struelens,Alkiviadis Vatopoulos,J T Weber,Dominique L Monnet +17 more
TL;DR: A group of international experts came together through a joint initiative by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to create a standardized international terminology with which to describe acquired resistance profiles in Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus spp.
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Harmonization of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols for epidemiological typing of strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a single approach developed by consensus in 10 European laboratories and its application for tracing the spread of related strains.
Stephen Murchan,Mary E. Kaufmann,Ariane Deplano,Raf De Ryck,Marc Struelens,Christina Elsberg Zinn,Vivian Fussing,Saara Salmenlinna,Jaana Vuopio-Varkila,Névine El Solh,C Cuny,Wolfgang Witte,Panayotis T. Tassios,N. J. Legakis,Willem B. van Leeuwen,Alex van Belkum,A. Vindel,Idoia Laconcha,Javier Garaizar,Saara Haeggman,Barbro Olsson-Liljequist,Ulrika Ransjo,Geoffrey Coombes,Barry Cookson +23 more
TL;DR: This multinational European Union project has established for the first time a European database of representative epidemic MRSA (EMRSA) strains and has compared them by using a new “harmonized” PFGE protocol developed by a consensus approach that has demonstrated sufficient reproducibility to allow the successful comparison of pulsed-field gels between laboratories and the tracking of strains around the EU.
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Emergence and spread of vancomycin resistance among enterococci in Europe
Guido Werner,Teresa M. Coque,Anette M. Hammerum,Russell Hope,Waleria Hryniewicz,Alan P. Johnson,Ingo Klare,Karl G. Kristinsson,Roland Leclercq,Camilla H. Lester,Mark Lillie,Carla Novais,Carla Novais,Barbro Olsson-Liljequist,Luísa Peixe,Ewa Sadowy,Gunnar Skov Simonsen,Janetta Top,Jaana Vuopio-Varkila,Rob J. L. Willems,Wolfgang Witte,Neil Woodford +21 more
TL;DR: Several factors are known to promote VRE colonisation and transmission; however, despite having populations with similar predispositions and preconditions, rates of VRE vary all over Europe.
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Effect of clonal and serotype-specific properties on the invasive capacity of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Andreas Sandgren,Karin Sjöström,Barbro Olsson-Liljequist,B. Christensson,A Samuelsson,Göran Kronvall,B. Henriques Normark +6 more
TL;DR: Comparing the molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease and carriage in one geographic area (Stockholm, Sweden) during a specific point in time suggests properties associated with a particular clonal type, in addition to capsular serotype, are likely to be important for the potential of pneumococci to cause invasive disease.
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Livestock-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Humans, Europe
Brigitte A. G. L. van Cleef,Dominique L Monnet,Andreas Voss,Karina K. Krziwanek,Franz Allerberger,Marc Struelens,Helena H. Zemlickova,Robert Skov,Jaana Vuopio-Varkila,C Cuny,Alexander W. Friedrich,Iris Spiliopoulou,Judit J. Pászti,Hjordis Hardardottir,Angela S. Rossney,Angelo A. Pan,Annalisa Pantosti,Michael M. Borg,Hajo Grundmann,Manica M. Mueller-Premru,Barbro Olsson-Liljequist,Andreas A. Widmer,Stephan Harbarth,Alexander A. Schweiger,Serhat Ünal,Jan Kluytmans +25 more
TL;DR: To estimate the proportion of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates from humans that were sequence type (ST) 398, 24 laboratories in 17 countries in Europe in 2007 were surveyed.