Range expansion and the origin of USA300 north american epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Range expansion and the origin of USA300 north american epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

The USA300 North American epidemic (USA300-NAE) clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has caused a wave of severe skin and soft tissue infections in the United States since it emerged in the early 2000s, but its geographic origin is obscure. Here we use the population genomic signatur...

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Main Authors: Challagundla, L., Luo, X., Tickler, I., Didelot, X., Coleman, D., Shore, A., Coombs, Geoffrey, Sordelli, D., Brown, E., Skov, R., Larsen, A., Reyes, J., Robledo, I., Vazquez, G., Rivera, R., Fey, P., Stevenson, K., Wang, S., Kreiswirth, B., Mediavilla, J., Arias, C., Planet, P., Nolan, R., Tenover, F., Goering, R., Robinson, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69693

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