Jane F. Turton

TL;DR: The data strongly suggest that individual CF patients are persistently infected with one strain and also suggests that different CF patients can harbor the same strain.

TL;DR: An outbreak of S. maltophilia on ICU is described in order to highlight the risk from contaminated devices for supply of drinking water from biofilms in devices that supply drinking water for ICU patients.

TL;DR: Variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis at nine loci of isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa submitted to the national reference laboratory from UK hospitals, from over 2000 patients, between June 2010 and June 2012 revealed four widely found types that collectively were received from approximately a fifth of patients, including from those with cystic fibrosis.

TL;DR: WGS of widely found international lineages such as ST-111 provides the necessary resolution to inform epidemiological investigations and intervention policies and revealed blocks of genes associated with particular clusters, with some having high similarity to bacteriophage genes.

TL;DR: Repeat numbers at nine variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) loci were determined for 177 isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa representing 77 strains distinguished by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), supporting the VNTR results in suggesting that they are similar.