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Impact of recombination on genetic variability within Staphylococcus aureus clonal complexes.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2010
Basic-Hammer Nevena, Vogel Valérie, Basset Patrick, Blanc Dominique S
Abstract excerpt
The population structure of Staphylococcus aureus is generally described as highly clonal and is consequently subdivided into several clonal complexes (CCs). Recent data suggested that recombination might occur more frequently within than among CCs. To test this hypothesis as well as to understand how genetic diversity is created in S. aureus, we analyzed a collection of 182 isolates with MLST and five highly...
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