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Differing epidemiology of two major healthcare-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Feb 2016
Jeremiah C J, Kandiah J P, Spelman D W, Giffard P M, Coombs G W, Jenney A W, Tong S Y
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BACKGROUND: Two meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clones, sequence type (ST) 22 and ST239, have successfully spread globally. Across Australia, ST22 has supplanted ST239 as the main healthcare-associated MRSA. To understand the reasons underlying this shift, the epidemiology and clinical features of infections due to ST22 and ST239 MRSA isolates from a tertiary hospital in Melbourne, Australia...
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