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An epidemiologic survey of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by combined use of mec-HVR genotyping and toxin genotyping in a university hospital in Japan.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology - 1 Sept 2002
Nishi Junichiro, Yoshinaga Masao, Miyanohara Hiroaki, Kawahara Motoshi, Kawabata Masaharu, Motoya Toshiro, Owaki Tetsuhiro, Oiso Shigeru, Kawakami Masayuki, Kamewari Shigeko, Koyama Yumiko, Wakimoto Naoko, Tokuda Koichi, Manago Kunihiro, Maruyama Ikuro
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the usefulness of an assay using two polymerase chain reaction-based genotyping methods in the practical surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). METHODS: Nosocomial infection and colonization were surveyed monthly in a university hospital in Japan for 20 months. Genotyping with mec-HVR is based on the size of the mec-associated hypervariable region amplified by...
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