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Evaluation of double locus (clfB and spa) sequence typing for studying molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Taiwan.
Journal of microbiology, immunology, and infection = Wei mian yu gan ran za zhi - 1 Oct 2017
Huang Chen-Cheng, Ho Cheng-Mao, Chen Hui-Chen, Li Chi-Yuan, Tien Ni, Fan Hsiu-Mei, Ge Mao-Cheng, Lu Jang-Jih
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BACKGROUND: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is the "gold standard" for epidemiological investigation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), but several DNA sequence-based methods have been developed in MRSA typing because of the unambiguous results. METHODS: Ninety-one MRSA isolates were collected from the blood cultures of different patients from July 2008 to December 2008 in central...
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