Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in New Zealand: Rapid Emergence of Sequence Type 5 (ST5)-SCCmec-IV as the Dominant Community-Associated MRSA Clone

The predominant community-associated MRSA strains vary between geographic settings, with ST8-IV USA300 being the commonest clone in North America, and the ST30-IV Southwest Pacific clone established as the dominant clone in New Zealand for the past two decades. Moreover, distinct epidemiological ris...

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Autores principales: Williamson, Deborah A., Roberts, Sally A., Ritchie, Stephen R., Coombs, Geoffrey W., Fraser, John D., Heffernan, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23637953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062020

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