PHENOTYPIC AND GENOMIC COMPARISON OF THE TWO MOST COMMON EXOU-POSITIVE PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA CLONES, PA14 AND ST235

Phenotypic and Genomic Comparison of the Two Most Common ExoU-Positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clones, PA14 and ST235

ABSTRACT Genotyping of 2,882 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates that had been collected during the last 40 years identified the ExoU-positive lineages PA14 (ST253) and ST235 as the second and third most frequent clones in the P.aeruginosa population.Both clones were approximately 2-fold more frequently detected in animate habitats than in soil or aqua

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Incidence and types of HIV-1 drug resistance mutation among patients failing first-line antiretroviral therapy

Objective: This study aims to investigate the prevalence and types of drug resistance mutations among patients failing first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART).Methods: Plasma samples from 112 patients with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) were collected for virus RNA extract and gene amplification.The mutations related to drug resistance were

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Modelling spatio-temporal patterns of disease for spatially misaligned data: An application on measles incidence data in Namibia from 2005-2014.

BACKGROUND:Making inferences about measles distribution patterns at small area level is vital for more focal targeted intervention.However, in statistical literature, the analysis of originally collected data on one resolution with the purpose to make inferences on a different level of spatial resolution is referred to as the misalignment problem.I

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