The Stealthy Superbug: the Role of Asymptomatic Enteric Carriage in Maintaining a Long-Term Hospital Outbreak of ST228 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of 228 isolates was used to elucidate the origin and dynamics of a long-term outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sequence type 228 (ST228) SCCmec I that involved 1,600 patients in a tertiary care hospital between 2008 and 2012. Combining of th...

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Autores principales: Senn, Laurence, Clerc, Olivier, Zanetti, Giorgio, Basset, Patrick, Prod’hom, Guy, Gordon, Nicola C., Sheppard, Anna E., Crook, Derrick W., James, Richard, Thorpe, Harry A., Feil, Edward J., Blanc, Dominique S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4725017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26787833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02039-15

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