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Population structure of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa from West and Central African countries.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Cholley Pascal, Ka Roughyatou, Guyeux Christophe, Thouverez Michelle, Guessennd Nathalie, Ghebremedhin Beniam, Frank Thierry, Bertrand Xavier, Hocquet Didier
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) has a non-clonal, epidemic population with a few widely distributed and frequently encountered sequence types (STs) called 'high-risk clusters'. Clinical P. aeruginosa (clinPA) has been studied in all inhabited continents excepted in Africa, where a very few isolates have been analyzed. Here, we characterized a collection of clinPA isolates from four countries of West and...
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