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Increased incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST80, novel ST125 and SCCmecIV in the south-eastern part of Norway during a 12-year period.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jul 2006
Fossum A E, Bukholm G
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A retrospective population-based study of genotypes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was performed during the period 1991-2003 in two counties in the south-eastern part of Norway. Isolates of MRSA from all individuals in the two counties in whom MRSA was detected were genotyped by means of multilocus sequence typing (MLST), staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing,...
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