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Clonal Distribution of Superantigen Genes in Clinical<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Isolates
31 May 2007
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus is both a successful human commensal and a major pathogen. The elucidation of the molecular determinants of virulence, in particular assessment of the contributions of the genetic background versus those of mobile genetic elements (MGEs), has proved difficult in this variable species. To address this, we simultaneously determined the genetic backgrounds (spa typing) and the distributions of...
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