USA300 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Cuba

BACKGROUND: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an increasing problem in the Caribbean. We investigated the molecular epidemiology of MRSA isolates on Cuba. FINDINGS: The predominant clone was of the spa type t149, followed by community-associated MRSA USA300. CONCLUSIONS: We report the f...

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Autores principales: Hopman, Joost, Peraza, Gilda Toraño, Espinosa, Fidel, Klaassen, Corné H, Velázquez, Dayneris Menéndez, Meis, Jacques F, Voss, Andreas
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-1-2
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author Hopman, Joost
Peraza, Gilda Toraño
Espinosa, Fidel
Klaassen, Corné H
Velázquez, Dayneris Menéndez
Meis, Jacques F
Voss, Andreas
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description BACKGROUND: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an increasing problem in the Caribbean. We investigated the molecular epidemiology of MRSA isolates on Cuba. FINDINGS: The predominant clone was of the spa type t149, followed by community-associated MRSA USA300. CONCLUSIONS: We report the first molecular typing results of MRSA isolates from Cuba.
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spelling pubmed-34151122012-08-13 USA300 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Cuba Hopman, Joost Peraza, Gilda Toraño Espinosa, Fidel Klaassen, Corné H Velázquez, Dayneris Menéndez Meis, Jacques F Voss, Andreas Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Short Report BACKGROUND: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an increasing problem in the Caribbean. We investigated the molecular epidemiology of MRSA isolates on Cuba. FINDINGS: The predominant clone was of the spa type t149, followed by community-associated MRSA USA300. CONCLUSIONS: We report the first molecular typing results of MRSA isolates from Cuba. BioMed Central 2012-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3415112/ /pubmed/22958408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-1-2 Text en Copyright ©2011 Hopman et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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