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Remarkable geographical variations between India and Europe in carriage of the staphylococcal surface protein-encoding sasX/sesI and in the population structure of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus belonging to clonal complex 8.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 May 2019
De Backer S, Xavier B B, Vanjari L, Coppens J, Lammens C, Vemu L, Carevic B, Hryniewicz W, Jorens P, Kumar-Singh S, Lee A, Harbarth S, Schrenzel J, Tacconelli E, Goossens H, Malhotra-Kumar S
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OBJECTIVES: sasX is a colonization-virulence factor that potentially underlies the success of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sequence type (ST) 239 in Asia. We aimed to study the spread of sasX and the population structure of MRSA in two geographically distinct regions, Europe and India. METHODS: MRSA (n = 128) from screening and clinical samples from tertiary care patients in 12 European...
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