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[Genotyping of clinical isolates of MRSA by PFGE and AP-PCR].
Kansenshogaku zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jul 1997
Kobayashi M, Ohara-Nemoto Y, Kaneko M
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping of 67 clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) separated from patients in a hospital in Mizusawa City in 1994 and 1995 was studied by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and arbitrarily primed-polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR). Two main genotypes were observed by PFGE, and more than 70% of the 67 MRSA isolates produced coagulase type II. One group diverged well and...
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