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SUBMITTER: Damborg P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147619 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20110606 8
PCR mapping of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IVa and adjacent mobile elements in 94 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains identified two primary structures (A and B) that could be further classified into two (A1 and A2) and five (B1 to B5) variants, primarily based on structural differences in the orfX-J3 region. While spa type t008 (USA300) invariably contained the A variants, other spa types belonging to clonal complex 8 and unrelated lineages generally conta ...[more]