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Molecular tracing of the emergence, diversification, and transmission of S. aureus sequence type 8 in a New York community.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 May 2014
Uhlemann Anne-Catrin, Dordel Janina, Knox Justin R, Raven Kathy E, Parkhill Julian, Holden Matthew T G, Peacock Sharon J, Lowy Franklin D
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During the last 2 decades, community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) strains have dramatically increased the global burden of S. aureus infections. The pandemic sequence type (ST)8/pulsed-field gel type USA300 is the dominant CA-MRSA clone in the United States, but its evolutionary history and basis for biological success are incompletely understood. Here, we use whole-genome...
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