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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 2000
ORGANISM(S): Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus
SUBMITTER: Annette Fagerlund
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-2345 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Molecular microbiology 20140922 3
Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen. Hospital infections caused by methicillin-resistant strains (MRSA), which have acquired resistance to a broad spectrum of antibiotics through horizontal gene transfer (HGT), are of particular concern. In S. aureus, virulence and antibiotic resistance genes are often encoded on mobile genetic elements that are disseminated by HGT. Conjugation and phage transduction have long been known to mediate HGT in this species, but it is unclear whether natur ...[more]