Outbreak of invasive wound mucormycosis in a burn unit due to multiple strains of Mucor circinelloides f. circinelloides resolved by whole genome sequencing
D. Garcia-Hermoso, A. Criscuolo, S. c. Lee, M. Legrand, M. Chaouat, B. Denis, M. Lafaurie, M. Rouveau, C. Soler, J.-V. Schaal, M. Mimoun, A. Mebazaa, J. Heitman, D. Francoise, S. Brisse, , A. Alanio
This study used whole genome sequencing to investigate an outbreak of invasive wound mucormycosis in a burn unit, revealing multiple strains from an environmental reservoir rather than direct patient-to-patient transmission.
bioRxiv · Dec 12, 2017Microbiology