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SUBMITTER: Thaipadungpanit J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4390622 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thaipadungpanit Janjira J Amornchai Premjit P Nickerson Emma K EK Wongsuvan Gumphol G Wuthiekanun Vanaporn V Limmathurotsakul Direk D Peacock Sharon J SJ
Journal of clinical microbiology 20150107 3
Molecular typing of 246 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from unselected patients in Thailand showed that 10 (4.1%) were actually Staphylococcus argenteus. Contrary to the suggestion that S. argenteus is less virulent than S. aureus, we demonstrated comparable rates of morbidity, death, and health care-associated infection in patients infected with either of these two species. ...[more]