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Host- and tissue-specific pathogenic traits of Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2005
van Leeuwen Willem B, Melles Damian C, Alaidan Alwaleed, Al-Ahdal Mohammed, Boelens Hélène A M, Snijders Susan V, Wertheim Heiman, van Duijkeren Engeline, Peeters Justine K, van der Spek Peter J, Gorkink Roy, Simons Guus, Verbrugh Henri A, van Belkum Alex
Abstract excerpt
Comparative genomics were used to assess genetic differences between Staphylococcus aureus strains derived from infected animals versus colonized or infected humans. A total of 77 veterinary isolates were genetically characterized by high-throughput amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). Bacterial genotypes were introduced in a large AFLP database containing similar information for 1,056 human S. aureus...
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