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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Australia.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 May 2008
Nimmo Graeme R, Coombs Geoffrey W
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A series of epidemics of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) have occurred in Australia, starting in Western Australia in the early 1990s, in the Northern Territory soon thereafter and in eastern states in the mid 1990s. The Western Australian epidemic has been due mainly to Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-negative clones, whilst PVL-positive clones have predominated in...
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