Evolutionary Dynamics of Pandemic Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus ST398 and Its International Spread via Routes of Human Migration

Evolutionary Dynamics of Pandemic Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus ST398 and Its International Spread via Routes of Human Migration

Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) accounts for the majority of S. aureus infections globally, and yet surprisingly little is known about its clonal evolution. We applied comparative whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analyses to epidemiologically and geographically diverse ST398-MSSA,...

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Main Authors: Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Paul R. McAdam, Sean B. Sullivan, Justin R. Knox, Hossein Khiabanian, Raul Rabadan, Peter R. Davies, J. Ross Fitzgerald, Franklin D. Lowy, Robert Daum, Richard P. Novick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-01-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/1/e01375-16

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