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Phenotyping of Staphylococcus aureus reveals a new virulent ST398 lineage.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2013
Schmidt T, Zündorf J, Grüger T, Brandenburg K, Reiners A-L, Zinserling J, Witte W, Schnitzler N
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST)398, which is commonly found as a colonization strain in pig farming, is emerging more frequently as the cause of human infections. In this study, we analysed ST398 of porcine and human origin at the genetic, protein and immunogenic levels. Although genetic analysis of the genes encoding the major virulence factors revealed the presence of the same genes in all strains...
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