Recombinations in Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec Elements Compromise the Molecular Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

Recombinations in Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec Elements Compromise the Molecular Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

Clinical laboratories are increasingly using molecular tests for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening. However, primers have to be targeted to a variable chromosomal region, the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec). We initially screened 726 MRSA isolates from a si...

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Main Authors: Hill-Cawthorne, Grant A., Hudson, Lyndsey O., El Ghany, Moataz Fouad Abd, Piepenburg, Olaf, Nair, Mridul, Dodgson, Andrew, Forrest, Matthew S., Clark, Taane G., Pain, Arnab
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4074205/

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