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Differing lifestyles of Staphylococcus epidermidis as revealed through Bayesian clustering of multilocus sequence types.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2014
Thomas Jonathan C, Zhang Liangfen, Robinson D Ashley
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Staphylococcus epidermidis is part of the normal bacterial flora of human skin and a leading cause of infections associated with indwelling medical devices. Previous phylogenetic analyses of subgenomic data have been unable to distinguish between S. epidermidis strains with nosocomial or commensal lifestyles, despite the identification of specific phenotypes and accessory genes that may contribute to such...
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