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Predominance of the Hungarian clone (ST 239-III) among hospital-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered throughout mainland China.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Mar 2009
Xu B L, Zhang G, Ye H F, Feil E J, Chen G R, Zhou X M, Zhan X M, Chen S M, Pan W B
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) data have revealed many insights into the global epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus but, with notable exceptions such as Japan, the evidence from most Asian countries is currently limited. Here we have applied MLST to 132 hospital-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) isolates collected in mainland China in 2002. In all, 102 isolates were recovered from...
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