Origin, evolution, and global transmission of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus ST8

Origin, evolution, and global transmission of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus ST8

USA300 is a pandemic clonal lineage of hypervirulent, community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) with specific molecular characteristics. Despite its high clinical relevance, the evolutionary origin of USA300 remained unclear. We used comparative genomics of 224 tempor...

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Main Authors: Strauß, L., Stegger, M., Akpaka, P., Alabi, A., Breurec, S., Coombs, Geoffrey, Egyir, B., Larsen, A., Laurent, F., Monecke, S., Peters, G., Skov, R., Strommenger, B., Vandenesch, F., Schaumburg, F., Mellmann, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70109

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70109

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