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Complete nucleotide sequence analysis of plasmids in strains of Staphylococcus aureus clone USA300 reveals a high level of identity among isolates with closely related core genome sequences.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2010
Kennedy Adam D, Porcella Stephen F, Martens Craig, Whitney Adeline R, Braughton Kevin R, Chen Liang, Craig Carly T, Tenover Fred C, Kreiswirth Barry N, Musser James M, DeLeo Frank R
Abstract excerpt
A community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) strain known as pulsed-field type USA300 (USA300) is epidemic in the United States. Previous comparative whole-genome sequencing studies demonstrated that there has been recent clonal emergence of a subset of USA300 isolates, which comprise the epidemic clone. Although the core genomes of these isolates are closely related, the level of...
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