Short term evolution of a highly transmissible methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus clone (ST228) in a Tertiary care hospital

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Vogel, Valérie ^a   Falquet, Laurent ^b   Calderon Copete, Sandra P ^b   Basset, Patrick ^a   Blanc, Dominique S ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWITZERLAND; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

CROSS INFECTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOSPITALS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84862487324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038969     Document Type: Article

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