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SUBMITTER: Shopsin B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC149583 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shopsin B B Mathema B B Alcabes P P Said-Salim B B Lina G G Matsuka A A Martinez J J Kreiswirth B N BN
Journal of clinical microbiology 20030101 1
PCR-based assays were used to evaluate agr locus nucleotide polymorphism for the identification of agr autoinducer receptor specificity groups within a population of Staphylococcus aureus isolates colonizing children and their guardians. All isolates could be assigned to one of three major agr groups that had similar prevalences, regardless of whether isolates were implicated in transmission of S. aureus within families. Among healthy carriers, agr groups I to III appear to be equally fit, which ...[more]