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Assessment of virulence diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains with a Drosophila melanogaster infection model.
BMC microbiology - 23 Nov 2012
Wu Kaiyu, Conly John, Surette Michael, Sibley Christopher, Elsayed Sameer, Zhang Kunyan
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BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus strains with distinct genetic backgrounds have shown different virulence in animal models as well as associations with different clinical outcomes, such as causing infection in the hospital or the community. With S. aureus strains carrying diverse genetic backgrounds that have been demonstrated by gene typing and genomic sequences, it is difficult to compare these strains using...
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