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Genetic relatedness between methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: results of a national survey
8 Feb 2007
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OBJECTIVES: Surveillance of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) infections has shown the emergence and spread of several epidemic MRSA clones over the past 10 years in Belgium. Whether these clones have been imported from abroad or else have arisen locally via staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) acquisition by successful methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA)...
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