| Literature DB >> 10970402 |
B Shopsin1, M Gomez, M Waddington, M Riehman, B N Kreiswirth.
Abstract
Coagulase gene (coa) short sequence repeat region sequencing was used to measure relatedness among a collection of temporally and geographically diverse methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. The results show that coa polymorphism is free of strong selective pressure and has a low index of variation that may be useful for long-term epidemiological investigations. coa typing is a useful addition to spa typing for analysis of S. aureus, including methicillin-resistant strains.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10970402 PMCID: PMC87405
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948