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Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus clone related to the early pandemic phage type 80/81 causing an outbreak among residents of three occupational centres in Barcelona, Spain.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jul 2012
Gasch O, Hornero A, Domínguez M A, Fernández A, Suárez C, Gómez S, Camoez M, Linares J, Ariza J, Pujol M
Abstract excerpt
In the 1950s an unusually virulent and transmissible penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone harbouring Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) genes, known as phage type 80/81 and subsequently identified as multilocus sequence type (ST) 30, emerged and caused serious infections in hospitals and the community. We describe an outbreak of skin infections caused by a PVL-positive, methicillin-susceptible S....
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