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Detection and characterization of international community-acquired infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre cities causing both community- and hospital-associated diseases.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Nov 2007
Ribeiro Apoena, Coronado Amada Zambrana, Silva-Carvalho Maria Cícera, Ferreira-Carvalho Bernadete Teixeira, Dias Cícero, Rozenbaum Ronaldo, Del Peloso Pedro Fernandez, da Costa Ferreira Leite Cassiana, Teixeira Lenise Arneiro, Figueiredo Agnes Marie Sá
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Community-acquired infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in the absence of classic risk factors for MRSA diseases have been reported in different continents. In the article presented here, using molecular typing methods as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec typing, and multilocus sequence typing, we characterized CA-MRSA isolates from Rio Janeiro...
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