Article
Molecular epidemiology and expression of capsular polysaccharides in Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates in the United States
14 Jan 2019
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus capsular polysaccharides (CP) are important virulence factors under evaluation as vaccine antigens. Clinical S. aureus isolates have the biosynthetic capability to express either CP5 or CP8 and an understanding of the relationship between CP genotype/phenotype and S. aureus epidemiology is valuable. Using whole genome sequencing, the clonal relatedness and CP genotype were evaluated for...