Publications by or related to SeqNet.org

Grundmann H, Aanensen DM, van den Wijngaard CC, Spratt BG, Harmsen D, Friedrich AW;
European Staphylococcal Reference Laboratory Working Group. 2010. Geographic distribution of Staphylococcus aureus causing invasive infections in Europe: a molecular-epidemiological analysis. PLoS Med. 12;7(1):e1000215.[Link]

Hallin M, Friedrich AW, Struelens MJ. 2009. spa typing for epidemiological surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus. Methods Mol Biol. 551:189-202. [Link]

Friedrich AW, Witte W, de Lencastre H, Hryniewicz W, Scheres J, Westh H; SeqNet.org participants.
A European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a communication platform between human and veterinary medicine - an update on SeqNet.org. Euro Surveill. 2008 May 8;13(19). pii: 18862. [Link]

Schmid D , Gschiel E, Mann M, Huhulescu S, Ruppitsch W, Böhm G, Pichler J, Lederer I, Höger G, Heuberger S, Allerberger F(2007) Outbreak of acute gastroenteritis in an Austrian boarding school, September 2006. Euro Surveill 2007;12(3)[Epub ahead of print]. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v12n03/1203-224.asp

Ruppitsch W., Indra A., Stöger A., Mayer B., Stadlbauer S., Wewalka G., Allerberger F.(2006) Classifying spa types in complexes improves interpretation of typing results for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 2006 44: 2442-2448.

von Eiff C, Friedrich AW, Becker K, Peters G. Comparative in vitro activity of ceftobiprole against staphylococci displaying normal and small-colony variant phenotypes. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Oct;49(10):4372-4.

Muller-Premru M, Strommenger B, Alikadic N, Witte W, Friedrich AW, Seme K, Kucina NS, Smrke D, Spik V, Gubina M. New strains of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton-Valentine leukocidin causing an outbreak of severe soft tissue infection in a football team. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2005 Dec;24(12):848-50

AW Friedrich, A. Mellmann, W. Witte, D. Harmsen, H. de Lencastre, W. Hryniewicz, J. Scheres, H. Westh and the SeqNet.org participants. SeqNet.org: a European-wide certification trial for sequence-based typing of microbial pathogens. European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 16th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Nice, April 1-4, 2006; Poster: 900 [PDF]

Aires-de-Sousa M, Boye K, de Lencastre H, Deplano A, Enright MC, Etienne J, Friedrich A, Harmsen D, Holmes A, Huijsdens XW, Kearns AM, Mellmann A, Meugnier H, Rasheed JK, Spalburg E, Strommenger B, Struelens MJ, Tenover FC, Thomas J, Vogel U, Westh H, Xu J, Witte W. High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Feb;44(2):619-21.

Strommenger B, Kettlitz C, Weniger T, Harmsen D, Friedrich AW, Witte W. Assignment of Staphylococcus isolates to groups by spa typing, SmaI macrorestriction analysis, and multilocus sequence typing. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Jul;44(7):2533-40.

Friedrich AW, Witte W, Harmsen D, de Lencastre H, Hryniewicz W, Scheres J, Westh H; SeqNet.org participants. SeqNet.org: a European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of microbial pathogens. Euro Surveill. 2006 Jan 12;11(1):E060112.4.

Friedrich AW, Witte W., Lencastre H., Hryniewicz W., Scheres J., Westh H. and the SeqNet.or participants. SeqNet.org: network of laboratories for sequence based typing of microbial pathogens. European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 15th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Copenhagen / Denmark, April 2-5, 2005; Poster: 1134_02_182