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Heavy Metal Pollution From a Major Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile Is Associated With Geographic Divergence of Clinical Isolates of Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in Latin America
2023-05-18
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a priority pathogen listed by the World Health Organization. The global spread of MRSA is characterized by successive waves of epidemic clones that predominate in specific geographical regions. The acquisition of genes encoding resistance to heavy-metals is thought to be a key feature in the divergence and geographical spread of MRSA. Increasing evidence sugges...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3d4da296-767d-5431-a110-825878fd8888
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.05.18.541300
