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Temporal changes in the genotypes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from a tertiary Malaysian hospital based on MLST, spa, and mec-associated dru typing.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Oct 2012
Lim King Ting, Hanifah Yasmin Abu, Yusof Mohd Yasim Mohd, Goering Richard V, Thong Kwai Lin
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the main bacterial pathogens responsible for nosocomial infections leading to pneumonia, bloodstream, skin, and soft tissue infections. The objective of this study was to investigate the genomic changes of MRSA in a tertiary hospital between the years 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2008. One hundred fifty-four MRSA strains were characterized by multilocus...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Malaysia
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Multilocus Sequence Typing
- Retrospective Studies