The Stealthy Superbug: the Role of Asymptomatic Enteric Carriage in Maintaining a Long-Term Hospital Outbreak of ST228 Methicillin-Resistant <named-content content-type="genus-species">Staphylococcus aureus</named-content>
ABSTRACT Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of 228 isolates was used to elucidate the origin and dynamics of a long-term outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sequence type 228 (ST228) SCCmec I that involved 1,600 patients in a tertiary care hospital between 2008 and 2012. Combin...
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American Society for Microbiology
2016
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/bab0dd3904094f67bf065d0364e2bdb5 |
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