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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Auteurs principaux: Laurence Senn, Olivier Clerc, Giorgio Zanetti, Patrick Basset, Guy Prod’hom, Nicola C. Gordon, Anna E. Sheppard, Derrick W. Crook, Richard James, Harry A. Thorpe, Edward J. Feil, Dominique S. Blanc
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Publié: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/bab0dd3904094f67bf065d0364e2bdb5
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