Comparative Genomics and Drug Resistance of a Geographic Variant of ST239 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Emerged in Russia

Two distinct classes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are spreading in hospitals (as hospital-acquired MRSA, HA-MRSA) and in the community (as community-acquired MRSA, CA-MRSA). Multilocus sequence type (ST) 239 MRSA, one of the most worldwide-disseminated lineages, has been not...

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Main Authors: Yamamoto, Tatsuo, Takano, Tomomi, Higuchi, Wataru, Iwao, Yasuhisa, Singur, Olga, Reva, Ivan, Otsuka, Yuta, Nakayashiki, Toru, Mori, Hirotada, Reva, Galina, Kuznetsov, Vladimir, Potapov, Vladimir
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261861/