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SUBMITTER: McCarthy AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3502926 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCarthy Alex J AJ van Wamel Willem W Vandendriessche Stien S Larsen Jesper J Denis Olivier O Garcia-Graells Cristina C Uhlemann Ann-Catrin AC Lowy Franklin D FD Skov Robert R Lindsay Jodi A JA
Applied and environmental microbiology 20121005 24
Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (CC398) isolates colonize livestock and can spread to human contacts. Genetic analysis of isolates epidemiologically associated with human-to-human, but not livestock, transmission in multiple countries and continents identified a common clade that was negative for tet(M) and positive for bacteriophage 3. Another group of human-to-human-transmitted isolates belonged to the common livestock-associated clade but had acquired a unique 7 bacteriophage. ...[more]