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Evolutionary genomics of Staphylococcus aureus: insights into the origin of methicillin-resistant strains and the toxic shock syndrome epidemic.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Jul 2001
Fitzgerald J R, Sturdevant D E, Mackie S M, Gill S R, Musser J M
Abstract excerpt
An emerging theme in medical microbiology is that extensive variation exists in gene content among strains of many pathogenic bacterial species. However, this topic has not been investigated on a genome scale with strains recovered from patients with well-defined clinical conditions. Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen and also causes economically important infections in cows and sheep. A DNA...
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