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Ecological temporal stability of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2010
Sakwinska Olga, Blanc Dominique S, Lazor-Blanchet Catherine, Moreillon Martine, Giddey Marlyse, Moreillon Philippe
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We described the colonization dynamics of Staphylococcus aureus in a group of 266 healthy carriers over a period of approximately 1 year. We used precise genotyping methods, i.e., amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), spa typing, and double-locus sequence typing (DLST), to detect changes in strain identity. Strain change took place rather rarely: out of 89 carriers who had initially been colonized, only...
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