Publications by or related to SeqNet.org

Tsompanidou E, Denham EL, Sibbald MJ, Yang XM, Seinen J, Friedrich AW, Buist G, van Dijl JM. The sortase A substrates FnbpA, FnbpB, ClfA and ClfB antagonize colony spreading of Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS One. 2012;7(9):e44646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044646. Epub 2012 Sep 7.

Sabat AJ, Koksal M, Akkerboom V, Monecke S, Kriegeskorte A, Hendrix R, Ehricht R, Köck R, Becker K, Friedrich AW. Detection of New Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains That Carry a Novel Genetic Homologue and Important Virulence Determinants. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Oct;50(10):3374-7. Epub 2012 Jul 25

Köck R, Loth B, Köksal M, Schulte-Wülwer J, Harlizius J, Friedrich AW. Persistence of nasal colonization with livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pig farmers after holidays from pig exposure. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Jun;78(11):4046-7. Epub 2012 Mar 23

Köck R, Siam K, Al-Malat S, Christmann J, Schaumburg F, Becker K, Friedrich AW. Characteristics of hospital patients colonized with livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) CC398 versus other MRSA clones. J Hosp Infect. 2011 Dec;79(4):292-6. Epub 2011 Oct 22

Köck R, Becker K, Cookson B, van Gemert-Pijnen JE, Harbarth S, Kluytmans J, Mielke M, Peters G, Skov RL, Struelens MJ, Tacconelli E, Navarro Torné A, Witte W, Friedrich AW. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2010 Oct 14;15(41):19688. Review. Erratum in: Euro Surveill. 2010;15(42). pii: 19694

Köck R, Harlizius J, Bressan N, Laerberg R, Wieler LH, Witte W, Deurenberg RH, Voss A, Becker K, Friedrich AW. Prevalence and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among pigs on German farms and import of livestock-related MRSA into hospitals. _Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2009 Nov;28(11):1375-82. Epub 2009 Aug 25

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