Michael Waddington

TL;DR: In the NYC collection, spa typing provided a clonal assignment for 185 of 195 strains within the five major groups previously described, and spa sequencing appears to be a highly effective rapid typing tool for S. aureus that, despite some expense of specificity, has significant advantages in terms of speed, ease of use, easy of interpretation, and standardization among laboratories.

TL;DR: MRSA colonization is not ubiquitous in persons without predisposing risk outside of the health care environment, and bacterial competition and a lack of strong selection may limit the community spread of MRSA.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the MicroSeq 500 16S bacterial sequencing kit provides a potentially powerful method for the definitive identification of clinical coryneform bacterium isolates.

TL;DR: The phylogenetic relationships of Enterobacter sakazakii strains were investigated using 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and hsp60 sequencing, indicating substantial taxonomic heterogeneity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used coagulase gene (coa) short sequence repeat region sequencing to measure relatedness among a collection of temporally and geographically diverse methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates.