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Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus from clinical and community sources are genetically diverse.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Apr 2011
Ghasemzadeh-Moghaddam Hamed, Ghaznavi-Rad Ehsanollah, Sekawi Zamberi, Yun-Khoon Liew, Aziz Mohammad Nazri, Hamat Rukman Awang, Melles Damian C, van Belkum Alex, Shamsudin Mariana Nor, Neela Vasanthakumari
Abstract excerpt
Despite the association of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) with several life-threatening diseases, relatively little is known about their clinical epidemiology in Malaysia. We characterized MSSA isolates (n=252) obtained from clinical and community (carriage) sources based on spa sequencing and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The prevalence of several important virulence genes was determined to...
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