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Experimental approaches for assessing genetic diversity among microbial pathogens
Editors: Alex van Belkum, Erasmus MC, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Birgitta Duim, Academic Medical Center, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Hays, Erasmus MC, Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherland
New approaches for the generation and analysis of microbial typing data
Editors: L. Dijkshoorn, Department of Infectious Diseases C5-P, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
K.J. Towner, Public Health Laboratory, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
M. Struelens, Department of Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, Belgium
Official ESGEM Publications
Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology
van Belkum A, Tassios P, Dijkshoorn L, Haeggman S, Cookson B, Fry NK, Fussing V, Green J, Feil E, Gerner-Smidt P, Brisse S, and Struelens M for the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Group on Epidemiological Markers (ESGEM).
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2007; 13 (Suppl 3), 1-46.
Current trends in the epidemiological typing of clinically relevant microbes in Europe
Maquelin K, Cookson B, Tassios P, van Belkum A; for the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Group on Epidemiological Markers (ESGEM). J Microbiol Methods. 2007 Apr;69(1):222-6.
Consensus guidelines for appropriate use and evaluation of microbial epidemiologic typing systems
Struelens MJ and the Members of the European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers (ESGEM) of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 1996; 2: 2-11.
Other Key Publications Involving ESGEM Members
Grundmann H, Aanensen DM, van den Wijngaard CC, Spratt BG, Harmsen D, Friedrich AW; European Staphylococcal Reference Laboratory Working Group.
PLoS Med. 2010 Jan 12;7(1):e1000215.
2003
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 Elizabeth Kaufmann, Ariane Deplano, Raf de Ryck, Marc Struelens, Christina Elsberg Zinn, Vivian Fussing, Saara Salmenlinna, Jaana Vuopio-Varkila, N_vine El Solh, Christina Cuny, Wolfgang Witte, Panayotis T. Tassios, Nikolas Legakis, Willem van Leeuwen, Alex van Belkum, Anna Vindel, Idoia Laconcha, Javier Garaizar, Saara Haeggman, Barbro Olsson-Liljequist, Ulrika Ransjo, Geoffrey Coombes, and Barry Cookson.
J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003, 41: 1574-1585.
Biologists deploy database to quash drug-resistant bacteria
Comment in Nature, 24 April 2003: Tom Clarke. Nature 422:791
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Molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: comparison of results obtained in a multilaboratory effort using identical protocols and MRSA strains.
Chung M, de Lencastre H, Matthews P, Tomasz A, and the Multilaboratory Project Collaborators – Adamsson I, Aires de Sousa M, Camou T, Cocuzza C, Corso A, Couto I, Dominguez A, Gniadkowski M, Goering R, Gomes A, Kikuchi K, Marchese A, Mato R, Melter O, Oliveira D, Palacio R, Sa-Leao R, Santos Sanches I, Song J-H, Tassios PT, Villari P.
Microb Drug Res 2000, 6: 189-198.
Multicenter evaluation of epidemiological typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains by repetitive-element PCR analysis. The European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers of the ESCMID
Deplano A, Schuermans A, Van Eldere J, et al.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2000; 38: 3527-3533.
A multicenter evaluation of genotypic methods for the epidemiologic typing of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1: results of a pan-European study
Fry NK, Alexiou-Daniel S, Bangsborg JM, et al.
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 1999; 5: 462-477.
Assessment of resolution and intercenter reproducibility of results of genotyping Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SmaI macrorestriction fragments: a multicenter study
Van Belkum A, Van Leeuwen W, Kaufmann ME, et al.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1998; 36: 1653-1659.
Multicenter study using standardized protocols and reagents for evaluation of reproducibility of PCR-based fingerprinting of Acinetobacter spp.
Grundmann HJ, Towner KJ, Dijkshoorn L, et al.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1997; 35: 3071-3077.
