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W J B Wannet1, E Spalburg, M E O C Heck, G N Pluister, R J L Willems, A J De Neeling.
Abstract
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important human pathogen and represents a growing public health burden due to the emergence and spread of epidemic strains, particularly within the hospital environment. An epidemic MRSA clone, with characteristic low-level resistance to oxacillin, emerged in the year 2000 and became endemic in the Netherlands. Multilocus sequence typing characterized the strain as sequence type 45, which was previously designated the Berlin epidemic MRSA clone. In 2 years, this strain has become the predominant MRSA clone in the Netherlands.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15243063 PMCID: PMC446297 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.7.3077-3082.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948