Archive: Determining Bacterial Strains in the Clinical Microbiology Lab

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Channel: UW Video · 2013 · Education

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"Strain Typing in the Clinical Microbiology Lab: MRSA and the VA"
Amanda Harrington, UW Clinical Assistant Professor of Microbiology, discusses several newer methods of determing bacterial strains, or strain typing, in the clinical microbiology laboratory, and how they are used in molecular epidemiology. She also discusses the correlation between nares surveillance culture for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and sites of clinical infection in a Veteran's population.
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