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Staphylococcus aureus: superbug, super genome?
Trends in microbiology - 1 Aug 2004
Lindsay Jodi A, Holden Matthew T G
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Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of infection in both hospitals and the community, and it is becoming increasingly virulent and resistant to antibiotics. The recent sequencing of seven strains of S. aureus provides unprecedented information about its genome diversity. Subtle differences in core (stable) regions of the genome have been exploited by multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) to understand S. aureus...
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