Alessandro Alvaro, Aurora Piazza, Stella Papaleo, Matteo Perini, Ajay Ratan Pasala, Simona Panelli, Tiago Nardi, Riccardo Nodari, Lodovico Sterzi, Cristina Pagani, Cristina Merla, Daniele Castelli, Emanuela Olivieri, Silvia Bracco, Maria Laura Ferrando, Francesca Saluzzo, Sara Giordana Rimoldi, Marta Corbella, Annalisa Cavallero, Paola Prati, Claudio Farina, Daniela Maria Cirillo, Gianvincenzo Zuccotti, Francesco Comandatore
Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic pathogen that survives in inhospitable environments causing large outbreaks, particularly in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Genomic studies revealed that most S. marcescens nosocomial infections are caused by a specific clone (here "Infectious clone"). Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is the only portable method able to identify this clone, but it requires days to obtain results. We present a cultivation-free hypervariable-locus melting typing (HLMT) protocol for the fast detection and typing of S...
April 19, 2024: IScience