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[Spa types and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates obtained form patients of the University Clinical Center in Gdańsk].
Medycyna doswiadczalna i mikrobiologia - 1 Jan 2013
Wiśniewska Katarzyna, Kasprzyk Joanna, Piechowicz Lidia, Bronk Marek, Swieć Krystyna
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INTRODUCTION: Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bloodstream infections. For epidemiological investigations of this bacteria spa genotyping is used as the method which has a high discriminatory power and gives results that can be easily compared between laboratories. In contrast to methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA), relatively little is known about spa types among methicillin-susceptible strains...
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