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Clinical and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying SCCmecIV in a university hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Dec 2009
Scribel Letícia V, Silva-Carvalho Maria C, Souza Raquel Rodrigues, Superti Silvana V, Kvitko Carlos H C, Figueiredo Agnes M S, Zavascki Alexandre P
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We evaluated clinical outcomes and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying SCCmecIV recovered from patients who attended at a teaching hospital from Porto Alegre, Brazil. All Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-producer isolates belonged to clonal complex (CC) 30 (11 isolates, related to Oceania Southwest Pacific clone [OSPC]), and the PVL-negative isolates were typed as CC5...
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