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Usefulness of phage open-reading frame typing method in an epidemiological study of an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2009
Nada Toshi, Yagi Tetsuya, Ohkura Teruko, Morishita Yoshitaka, Baba Hisashi, Ohta Michio, Suzuki Masahiro
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A novel genotyping method for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the phage open-reading frames typing (POT) method, was evaluated using 92 MRSA isolates collected from blood cultures between 1991 and 2003 at Nagoya University Hospital. These strains were divided into 64 distinct...
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