Use of variations in staphylococcal interspersed repeat units for molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains.

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  • Katherine J Hardy
  • Beryl A Oppenheim
  • Savita Gossain
  • Fang Gao
  • Peter M Hawkey
چکیده

Staphylococcal interspersed repeat unit typing has previously been shown to have the ability to discriminate between epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in the United Kingdom. The current study illustrates its ability to distinguish between strains within an endemic setting thereby providing a rapid transportable typing method for the identification of transmission events.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical microbiology

دوره 44 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006