The Australian community methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus endemic : clonal spread or multiple evolutionary events

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was first reported in remote indigenous communities living in the sparsely populated Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA). Between 1989 and 1995 five Panton Valentine leucocidin (PVL) negative clones were isolated from...

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Main Author: Coombs, Geoffrey Wallace
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2622