ST2249-MRSA-III: A second major recombinant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone causing healthcare infection in the 1970s

© 2015 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Typing of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from Australia in the 1970s revealed a novel clone, ST2249-MRSA-III (CC45), present from 1973 to 1979. This clone was present before the Austra...

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Main Authors: Nimmo, G., Steen, J., Monecke, S., Ehricht, R., Slickers, P., Thomas, J., Appleton, S., Goering, R., Robinson, D., Coombs, Geoffrey
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12664