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The survival of epidemic and sporadic MRSA on human skin mimics is determined by both host and bacterial factors by Baede, Valérie O., Voet, Michella M., van der Reijden, Tanny J. K., van Wengen, Annelies, Horst-Kreft, Deborah E., Lemmens-den Toom, Nicole A., Tavakol, Mehri, Vos, Margreet C., Nibbering, Peter H., van Wamel, Willem J. B.

“…Bacterial survival on, and interactions with, human skin may explain the epidemiological success of MRSA strains. We evaluated the bacterial counts for 27…”
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5 Years of Experience Implementing a Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Search and Destroy Policy at the Largest University Medical Center in the Netherlands by Vos, Margreet C., Behrendt, Myra D., Melles, Damian C., Mollema, Femke P. N., de Groot, Woutrinus, Parlevliet, Gerard, Ott, Alewijn, Horst‐Kreft, Deborah, van Belkum, Alex, Verbrugh, Henri A.

“…To evaluate the effectiveness of a rigorous search and destroy policy for controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection or…”
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The Role of the Respiratory Microbiome and Viral Presence in Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Severity in the First Five Years of Life by Hoefnagels, Ivo, van de Maat, Josephine, van Kampen, Jeroen J.A., van Rossum, Annemarie, Obihara, Charlie, Tramper-Stranders, Gerdien A., Heikema, Astrid P., de Koning, Willem, van Wermerskerken, Anne-Marie, Horst-Kreft, Deborah, Driessen, Gertjan J.A., Punt, Janine, Smit, Frank J., Stubbs, Andrew, Noordzij, Jeroen G., Hays, John P., Oostenbrink, Rianne

“…Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in children are common and, although often mild, a major cause of mortality and hospitalization. Recently, the…”
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Comparison of Illumina versus Nanopore 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing of the Human Nasal Microbiota by Heikema, Astrid P, Horst-Kreft, Deborah, Boers, Stefan A, Jansen, Rick, Hiltemann, Saskia D, de Koning, Willem, Kraaij, Robert, de Ridder, Maria A J, van Houten, Chantal B, Bont, Louis J, Stubbs, Andrew P, Hays, John P

“…Illumina and nanopore sequencing technologies are powerful tools that can be used to determine the bacterial composition of complex microbial communities. In…”
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Optical Fingerprinting in Bacterial Epidemiology: Raman Spectroscopy as a Real-Time Typing Method by WILLEMSE-ERIX, Diana F. M, SCHOLTES-TIMMERMAN, Maarten J, MAQUELIN, Kees, JACHTENBERG, Jan-Willem, VAN LEEUWEN, Willem B, HORST-KREFT, Deborah, BAKKER SCHUT, Tom C, DEURENBERG, Ruud H, PUPPELS, Gerwin J, VAN BELKUM, Alex, VOS, Margreet C

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Campylobacter jejuni Translocation across Intestinal Epithelial Cells Is Facilitated by Ganglioside-Like Lipooligosaccharide Structures by LOUWEN, Rogier, NIEUWENHUIS, Edward E. S, BAARLEN, Peter Van, AKHMANOVA, Anna, BELKUM, Alex Van, MARREWIJK, Leonie Van, HORST-KREFT, Deborah, DE RUITER, Lilian, HEIKEMA, Astrid P, WAMEL, Willem J. B. Van, WAGENAAR, Jaap A, ENDTZ, Hubert P, SAMSOM, Janneke

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Clonal Spread of a Clostridium difficile Strain with a Complete Set of Toxin A, Toxin B, and Binary Toxin Genes among Polish Patients with Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea by Pituch, Hanna, Kreft, Deborah, Obuch-Woszczatyński, Piotr, Wultańska, Dorota, Meisel-Mikołajczyk, Felicja, Łuczak, Mirosław, van Belkum, Alex

“…Clinically relevant Clostridium difficile strains usually produce toxins A and B. Some C. difficile strains can produce an additional binary toxin. We report…”
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Candida krusei Transmission among Hematology Patients Resolved by Adapted Antifungal Prophylaxis and Infection Control Measures by VOS, Margreet C, ENDTZ, Hubert P, HORST-KREFT, Deborah, DOORDUIJN, Jeanette, LUGTENBURG, Elly, VERBRUGH, Henri A, LÖWENBERG, Bob, DE MARIE, Siem, VAN PELT, Cindy, VAN BELKUM, Alex

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Comparison of Eight Methods To Detect Vancomycin Resistance in Enterococci by ENDTZ, H. P, VAN DEN BRAAK, N, VAN BELKUM, A, GOESSENS, W. H, KREFT, D, STROEBEL, A. B, VERBRUGH, H. A

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Validation of rapid screening tests for the identification of methicillin resistance in staphylococci by van Leeuwen, Willem B, Kreft, Deborah E, Verbrugh, Henri

“…The Velogene Rapid MRSA Identification Assay (Alexon-Trend Inc., Ramsey, MN), a commercially available 90-min genotypic test using a chimeric probe for the…”
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Antimicrobial activity of two novel antimicrobial peptides AA139 and SET-M33 against clinically and genotypically diverse Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates with differing antibiotic resistance profiles by van der Weide, Hessel, Vermeulen-de Jongh, Denise M.C., van der Meijden, Aart, Boers, Stefan A., Kreft, Deborah, ten Kate, Marian T., Falciani, Chiara, Pini, Alessandro, Strandh, Magnus, Bakker-Woudenberg, Irma A.J.M., Hays, John P., Goessens, Wil H.F.

“…•Susceptibility to AA139 and SET-M33 did not differ among clinically relevant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates.•AA139 and SET-M33 showed a bactericidal effect…”
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VNTR confirms the heterogeneity of Madurella mycetomatis and is a promising typing tool for this mycetoma causing agent by Lim, Wilson, Eadie, Kimberly, Horst-Kreft, Deborah, Ahmed, Sarah Abdalla, Fahal, Ahmed H, van de Sande, Wendy W J

“…The neglected tropical disease mycetoma is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory and infectious disease affecting various body parts. The most common causative…”
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Campylobacter jejuni Cas9 Modulates the Transcriptome in Caco-2 Intestinal Epithelial Cells by Saha, Chinmoy, Horst-Kreft, Deborah, Kross, Inez, van der Spek, Peter J., Louwen, Rogier, van Baarlen, Peter

“…The zoonotic human pathogen Campylobacter jejuni is known for its ability to induce DNA-damage and cell death pathology in humans. The molecular mechanism…”
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OXA-Carbapenemases Present in Clinical Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus Complex Isolates from Patients in Kurdistan Region, Iraq by Ganjo, Aryann R, Maghdid, Delshad M, Mansoor, Isam Y, Kok, Dik J, Severin, Juliette A, Verbrugh, Henri A, Kreft, Deborah, Fatah, M H, Alnakshabandi, A A, Dlnya, Asad, Hammerum, Anette M, Ng, Kim, Goessens, Wil

“…In addition to intrinsic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii, many different types of acquired resistance mechanisms have been reported, including the…”
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Biomolecule sulphation and novel methylations related to Guillain-Barré syndrome-associated Campylobacter jejuni serotype HS:19 by Heikema, Astrid P, Strepis, Nikolaos, Horst-Kreft, Deborah, Huynh, Steven, Zomer, Aldert, Kelly, David J, Cooper, Kerry K, Parker, Craig T

“…Campylobacter jejuni strains that produce sialylated lipooligosaccharides (LOS) can cause the immune-mediated disease Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The risk…”
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Guide-free Cas9 from pathogenic Campylobacter jejuni bacteria causes severe damage to DNA by Saha, Chinmoy, Mohanraju, Prarthana, Stubbs, Andrew, Dugar, Gaurav, Hoogstrate, Youri, Kremers, Gert-Jan, van Cappellen, Wiggert A, Horst-Kreft, Deborah, Laffeber, Charlie, Lebbink, Joyce H G, Bruens, Serena, Gaskin, Duncan, Beerens, Dior, Klunder, Maarten, Joosten, Rob, Demmers, Jeroen A A, van Gent, Dik, Mouton, Johan W, van der Spek, Peter J, van der Oost, John, van Baarlen, Peter, Louwen, Rogier

“…CRISPR-Cas9 systems are enriched in human pathogenic bacteria and have been linked to cytotoxicity by an unknown mechanism. Here, we show that upon infection…”
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Clinical and molecular epidemiologic characteristics of coagulase-negative staphylococcal bloodstream infections in intensive care neonates by HIRA, Vishal, SLUIJTER, Marcel, ESTEVAO, Silvia, HORST-KREFT, Deborah, OTT, Alewijn, DE GROOT, Ronald, HERMANS, Peter W. M, KORNELISSE, René F

“…This study aimed to determine clinical characteristics of coagulase-negative staphylococcal (CoNS) sepsis in neonates, to assess the molecular epidemiology and…”
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Comparison of multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) for genetic typing of Staphylococcus aureus by Melles, Damian C., van Leeuwen, Willem B., Snijders, Susan V., Horst-Kreft, Deborah, Peeters, Justine K., Verbrugh, Henri A., van Belkum, Alex

“…We compared multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) for typing of…”
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International spread of major clones of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus: nosocomial endemicity of multi locus sequence type 239 in Saudi Arabia and Romania by Cîrlan, Maria, Saad, Magida, Coman, Gabriela, Bilal, Naser Eldin, Elbashier, Ali Magzoub, Kreft, Deborah, Snijders, Susan, van Leeuwen, Willem, van Belkum, Alex

“…Phenotypically identified methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains from several hospitals in Romania and Saudi Arabia ( n = 103 and 68,…”
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Low rate of carriage of macrolide-resistant group B streptococci in pregnant women in The Netherlands by Muller, Anouk E, Valkenburg-van den Berg, Arijaan W, Kreft, Deborah, Oostvogel, Paul M, Sprij, Arwen J, van Belkum, Alex

“…Abstract Objectives To describe prevalence of phenotypic and genotypic macrolide-resistance among GBS isolates in pregnant women and explore the possibility of…”
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