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Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus protein A (spa) mutants in the community and hospitals in Oxfordshire.

BMC microbiology - 12 Mar 2014

Votintseva Antonina A, Fung Rowena, Miller Ruth R, Knox Kyle, Godwin Heather, Wyllie David H, Bowden Rory, Crook Derrick W, Walker A Sarah

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BACKGROUND: Staphylococcal protein A (spa) is an important virulence factor which enables Staphylococcus aureus to evade host immune responses. Genotypes known as "spa-types", based on highly variable Xr region sequences of the spa-gene, are frequently used to classify strains. A weakness of current spa-typing primers is that rearrangements in the IgG-binding region of the gene cause 1-2% of strains to be...

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PMID: 24621342
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-63
PMCID: PMC4007515

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