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The predominant variant of the Brazilian epidemic clonal complex of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has an enhanced ability to produce biofilm and to adhere to and invade airway epithelial cells.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2005
Amaral Maribel M, Coelho Leonardo R, Flores Rosania P, Souza Raquel R, Silva-Carvalho Maria C, Teixeira Lenise A, Ferreira-Carvalho Bernadete T, Figueiredo Agnes M S
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged as a therapeutic problem. In the present study, the molecular characterization by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of MRSA isolates collected from a university hospital revealed that the predominant variant of the Brazilian epidemic clonal complex (BECC) was responsible for the increase in the incidence of MRSA strains, which reached 28% in 1998. It...
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