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Hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) in Italy.
Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials - 24 Jun 2009
Campanile Floriana, Bongiorno Dafne, Borbone Sonia, Stefani Stefania
Abstract excerpt
The aim of our study was to trace the dynamic changes of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) lineages in Italy, comparing the genotypic backgrounds of contemporary isolates over a period of 17 years, with those of a sample of early MRSA strains from 1980. In total, 301 non-repetitive MRSA clinical isolates, recovered from 19 Italian hospitals between 1990 and 2007 were...
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