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Do Staphylococcus epidermidis Genetic Clusters Predict Isolation Sources?
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2016
Tolo Isaiah, Thomas Jonathan C, Fischer Rebecca S B, Brown Eric L, Gray Barry M, Robinson D Ashley
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus epidermidis is a ubiquitous colonizer of human skin and a common cause of medical device-associated infections. The extent to which the population genetic structure of S. epidermidis distinguishes commensal from pathogenic isolates is unclear. Previously, Bayesian clustering of 437 multilocus sequence types (STs) in the international database revealed a population structure of six genetic clusters...
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