Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus protein A (spa) mutants in the community and hospitals in Oxfordshire

BACKGROUND: Staphylococcal protein A (spa) is an important virulence factor which enables Staphylococcus aureus to evade host immune responses. Genotypes known as “spa-types”, based on highly variable Xr region sequences of the spa-gene, are frequently used to classify strains. A weakness of current...

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Autores principales: Votintseva, Antonina A, Fung, Rowena, Miller, Ruth R, Knox, Kyle, Godwin, Heather, Wyllie, David H, Bowden, Rory, Crook, Derrick W, Walker, A Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4007515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24621342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-14-63

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4007515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24621342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-14-63

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