A Preliminary Guideline for the Assignment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to a Canadian Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Epidemic Type Using spa Typing

A Preliminary Guideline for the Assignment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to a Canadian Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Epidemic Type Using spa Typing

BACKGROUND: Increasing rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections on a global scale is a major health concern. In Canada, there are 10 known epidemic types of MRSA as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Despite the excellent discriminatory power of PFGE...

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Main Authors: George R Golding, Jennifer L Campbell, Dave J Spreitzer, Joe Veyhl, Kathy Surynicz, Andrew Simor, Michael R Mulvey, Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2008-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/754249

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