The Molecular Epidemiology of the Highly Virulent ST93 Australian Community Staphylococcus aureus Strain
In Australia the PVL - positive ST93-IV [2B], colloquially known as ‘‘Queensland CA-MRSA’’ has become the dominant CA-MRSA clone. First described in the early 2000s, ST93-IV [2B] is associated with skin and severe invasive infections including necrotizing pneumonia. A singleton by multilocus sequenc...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41002 |