| Literature DB >> 18715738 |
Noella Gardella1, Martha von Specht, Arabela Cuirolo, Adriana Rosato, Gabriel Gutkind, Marta Mollerach.
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Sixty-nine community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus recovered in 6 healthcare centers from northeastern and eastern Argentina were genotyped by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The predominant pulsotype was widely distributed harbored SCCmec type IV and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes. Representative isolates were characterized by multilocus sequence typing and spa typing, demonstrating that this clone belonged to ST5 and spa type 311.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18715738 DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis ISSN: 0732-8893 Impact factor: 2.803