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Serotyping of Dutch Staphylococcus aureus strains from carriage and infection.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 1 Mar 2008
Melles Damian C, Taylor Kimberly L, Fattom Ali I, van Belkum Alex
Abstract excerpt
International epidemiological studies have shown that clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus are usually capsulated with either type 5 or 8 capsular polysaccharides (CPs). Because all noncapsulated strains were found to be cross-reactive with polysaccharide 336 (336PS) antibodies, the noncapsulated strains were denoted as type 336PS. The capsular types of 162 Dutch methicillin-susceptible S. aureus strains...
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