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S taphylococcus aureus competence genes: mapping of the SigH , ComK 1 and ComK 2 regulons by transcriptome sequencing
26 Aug 2014
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Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen. Hospital infections caused by methicillin-resistant strains (MRSA), which have acquired resistance to a broad spectrum of antibiotics through horizontal gene transfer (HGT), are of particular concern. In S. aureus, virulence and antibiotic resistance genes are often encoded on mobile genetic elements that are disseminated by HGT. Conjugation and phage transduction...
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