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Comparison of an ST80 MRSA strain from the USA with European ST80 strains.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Mar 2015
Fluit Ad C, Carpaij Neeltje, Majoor Eline A M, Weinstein Robert A, Aroutcheva Alla, Rice Thomas W, Bonten Marc J M, Willems Rob J L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: A number of community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) clonal lineages dominate worldwide. ST80 was dominant in Europe and has increasingly been described from the Middle East. Here we report the whole genome sequence of the first ST80 CA-MRSA from the USA. METHODS: CA-MRSA isolate S0924 was obtained from a patient admitted to Cook County Hospital (Chicago, IL, USA) who came from Syria; the isolate belonged to...
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