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SUBMITTER: Aires de Sousa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC154747 | biostudies-literature | 2003 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aires de Sousa M M Bartzavali C C Spiliopoulou I I Sanches I Santos IS Crisóstomo M I MI de Lencastre H H
Journal of clinical microbiology 20030501 5
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of SmaI macrofragments and hybridization of ClaI digests with the mecA- and Tn554-specific DNA probes were used to define the endemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among strains collected in 1993 and 1998 to 2000 at the University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece. Representatives of each clonal type were analyzed by spaA typing, multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec (SCCmec) typing. ...[more]