Associations between dru Types and SCCmec cassettes.

Molecular typing is an important tool in the investigation of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks and in following the evolution of MRSA. The staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) contains a hypervariable region with a variable number of 40 bp repeats named direct...

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Main Authors: Mette D Bartels, Kit Boye, Duarte C Oliveira, Peder Worning, Richard Goering, Henrik Westh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3636274?pdf=render

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