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Overlapping population structures of nasal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from healthy Dutch and American individuals.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2008
Melles Damian C, Tenover Fred C, Kuehnert Matthew J, Witsenboer Hanneke, Peeters Justine K, Verbrugh Henri A, van Belkum Alex
Abstract excerpt
To understand Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage and its relationship with subsequent disease, insight into the natural (nonclinical) bacterial population structure is essential. This study investigated whether the distributions of S. aureus genotypes that cause colonization differ by geographic locales. High-throughput amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis was performed on nasal isolates of S....
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