Patient sharing and population genetic structure of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6763-6768

  Ke, Weixiong ^a   Huang, Susan S ^b   Hudson, Lyndsey O ^c   Elkins, Kristen R ^b   Nguyen, Christopher C ^b   Spratt, Brian G ^c   Murphy, Courtney R ^b   Avery, Taliser R ^d   Lipsitch, Marc ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84860135252     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113578109     Document Type: Article

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