USA300 Staphylococcus aureus persists on multiple body sites following an infection

Abstract Background USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a community- and hospital-acquired pathogen that frequently causes infections but also can survive on the human body asymptomatically as a part of the normal microbiota. We devised a comparative genomic strategy to trac...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Timothy D. Read, Robert A. Petit, Zachary Yin, Tuyaa Montgomery, Moira C. McNulty, Michael Z. David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12866-018-1336-z