Global scale dissemination of ST93: A divergent staphylococcus aureus epidemic lineage that has recently emerged from remote northern Australia

Global scale dissemination of ST93: A divergent staphylococcus aureus epidemic lineage that has recently emerged from remote northern Australia

Background: In Australia, community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineage sequence type (ST) 93 has rapidly risen to dominance since being described in the early 1990s. We examined 459 ST93 genome sequences from Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Europe to investigate...

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Main Authors: van Hal, S., Steinig, E., Andersson, P., Holden, M., Harris, S., Nimmo, G., Williamson, D., Heffernan, H., Ritchie, S., Kearns, A., Ellington, M., Dickson, E., de Lencastre, H., Coombs, Geoffrey, Bentley, S., Parkhill, J., Holt, D., Giffard, P., Tong, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69714

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