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SUBMITTER: Aires de Sousa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC179813 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aires de Sousa M M de Lencastre H H
Journal of clinical microbiology 20030801 8
Forty-one methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) hospital isolates that clearly differed from the six major pandemic clones of MRSA in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type, mecA and Tn554 polymorphism, and epidemic behavior were selected from an international strain collection for more detailed characterization. SpaA typing, multilocus sequence typing, and SCCmec (staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec) typing demonstrated extensive diversity among these sporadic isolates both in ge ...[more]