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Inferring a population structure for Staphylococcus epidermidis from multilocus sequence typing data.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 2007
Miragaia M, Thomas J C, Couto I, Enright M C, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Despite its importance as a human pathogen, information on population structure and global epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis is scarce and the relative importance of the mechanisms contributing to clonal diversification is unknown. In this study, we addressed these issues by analyzing a representative collection of S. epidermidis isolates from diverse geographic and clinical origins using multilocus...
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