Article
Evolutionary Dynamics of Pandemic Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus ST398 and Its International Spread via Routes of Human Migration.
mBio - 17 Jan 2017
Uhlemann Anne-Catrin, McAdam Paul R, Sullivan Sean B, Knox Justin R, Khiabanian Hossein, Rabadan Raul, Davies Peter R, Fitzgerald J Ross, Lowy Franklin D
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) accounts for the majority of S. aureus infections globally, and yet surprisingly little is known about its clonal evolution. We applied comparative whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analyses to epidemiologically and geographically diverse ST398-MSSA, a pandemic lineage affecting both humans and livestock. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis predicted divergence of...
Topics
- Animals
- Disease Transmission, Infectious
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Global Health
- Human Migration
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Pandemics
- Phylogeography
