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Genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from Korea and Japan.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2005
Soo Ko Kwan, Peck Kyong Ran, Sup Oh Won, Lee Nam Yong, Hiramatsu Keiichi, Song Jae-Hoon
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we evaluated genetic differentiation between methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains from Korea and Japan. Seventy-five MRSA strains, including 25 h VISA strains, were analyzed by molecular typing methods, including multilocus sequence typing (MLST), SCC mec typing, and spa typing. The most prevalent genotype of MRSA strains, in both Korea and Japan, was ST 5-MRSA-II with the...
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