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SUBMITTER: Meric G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4453061 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Méric Guillaume G Miragaia Maria M de Been Mark M Yahara Koji K Pascoe Ben B Mageiros Leonardos L Mikhail Jane J Harris Llinos G LG Wilkinson Thomas S TS Rolo Joana J Lamble Sarah S Bray James E JE Jolley Keith A KA Hanage William P WP Bowden Rory R Maiden Martin C J MC Mack Dietrich D de Lencastre Hermínia H Feil Edward J EJ Corander Jukka J Sheppard Samuel K SK
Genome biology and evolution 20150416 5
The opportunistic pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis represent major causes of severe nosocomial infection, and are associated with high levels of mortality and morbidity worldwide. These species are both common commensals on the human skin and in the nasal pharynx, but are genetically distinct, differing at 24% average nucleotide divergence in 1,478 core genes. To better understand the genome dynamics of these ecologically similar staphylococcal species, we carried o ...[more]