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Diversity of prophages in dominant Staphylococcus aureus clonal lineages.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 2009
Goerke Christiane, Pantucek Roman, Holtfreter Silva, Schulte Berit, Zink Manuel, Grumann Dorothee, Bröker Barbara M, Doskar Jiri, Wolz Christiane
Abstract excerpt
Temperate bacteriophages play an important role in the pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus, for instance, by mediating the horizontal gene transfer of virulence factors. Here we established a classification scheme for staphylococcal prophages of the major Siphoviridae family based on integrase...
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