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CC398 Staphylococcus aureus subpopulations in Belgian patients.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 May 2018
Argudín M Angeles, Deplano A, Vandendriessche S, Dodémont M, Nonhoff C, Denis O, Roisin S
Abstract excerpt
Studies based on genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) supported the existence of two subpopulations in clonal complex (CC) 398 Staphylococcus aureus: an ancestral human-adapted clade (HC) and an animal-associated clade (AC). In this study, we have investigated the occurrence of genetic markers that allow discrimination of these subpopulations among CC398 isolates collected during 2014 to 2016 from...
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