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Evidence for the geographic spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone between Portugal and Spain.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 1995
Sanches I S, Ramirez M, Troni H, Abecassis M, Padua M, Tomasz A, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected during a 7-month period in 1992 and 1993 at Hospital Pulido Valente (340 beds), Lisbon, Portugal, were characterized by a combination of genotypic and phenotypic methods. Clonal identities were determined by probing ClaI digests (i) with a mecA probe and (ii) with a Tn554 probe and (iii) by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns of...
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