The Molecular Epidemiology of the Highly Virulent ST93 Australian Community Staphylococcus aureus Strain

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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Main Authors: Coombs, Geoffrey, Goering, Richard, Chua, Kyra, Monecke, Stefan, Howden, Benjamin, Stinear, Timothy, Ehricht, Ralf, O'Brien, Frances, Christiansen, Keryn
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Subjects:
ST93-IV [2B]
Queensland CA-MRSA
CAMRSA
skin
PVL - positive ST93-IV [2B]
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41002

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