Article
Genomic epidemiology of mecC-carrying Staphylococcus aureus isolates from human clinical cases in New Zealand.
2024-05-20
Abstract excerpt
In 2011 a novel methicillin resistance gene, mecC, was described in human and bovine Staphylococcus aureus isolates. mecC-positive S. aureus is most commonly associated with livestock and wildlife populations across Europe and is particularly prevalent in hedgehogs, but only occasionally causes human infections. In this study we characterize and investigate the origin of two human S. aureus isolates containing mec...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b3144aea-88a1-500f-a978-1896a4c9b685
- DOI
- 10.1099/acmi.0.000849.v1
