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Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus strains associated with food poisoning in Shenzhen, China.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2012
Yan Xiaomei, Wang Bing, Tao Xiaoxia, Hu Qinghua, Cui Zhigang, Zhang Jianzhong, Lin Yiman, You Yuanhai, Shi Xiaolu, Grundmann Hajo
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To characterize isolates of Staphylococcus aureus that were associated with staphylococcal food poisoning between 2006 and 2009 in Shenzhen, Southern China, a total of 52 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 11 outbreaks were analyzed by using multilocus sequence typing (MLST), spa typing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). PCR analysis was used to analyze the staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) genes sea to...
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