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Artur J Sabat1, Mahir Koksal, Viktoria Akkerboom, Stefan Monecke, André Kriegeskorte, Ron Hendrix, Ralf Ehricht, Robin Köck, Karsten Becker, Alexander W Friedrich.
Abstract
In this study, 18 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates harboring staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type XI, recovered in the Dutch-German Euregio, were characterized by DNA microarrays. In contrast to previous data, we found two MRSA strains of different clonal lineages possessing SCCmec XI that carried important virulence determinants. The worrisome emergence of such toxigenic MRSA strains raises concerns that MRSA strains with enhanced virulence potential and impaired detectability by standard molecular assays may spread in Europe.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22837322 PMCID: PMC3457415 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01121-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948