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Shared antibiotic resistance and virulence genes in Staphylococcus aureus from diverse animal hosts
15 Mar 2022
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses an important threat in human and animal health. In this study, we ask whether resistance and virulence genes in S. aureus are homogeneously distributed or constrained by different animal hosts. We carried out whole genome sequencing of 114 S. aureus isolates from ten species of animals sampled from four New England states (USA) in...
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