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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 63, Issue 10, Pages 1349-1352Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw532
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MRSA; host adaptation; foodborne transmission; poultry; livestock
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health [1R01AI101371-01A1]
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We investigated the evolution and epidemiology of a novel live-stock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain, which colonizes and infects urban-dwelling Danes even without a Danish animal reservoir. Genetic evidence suggests both poultry and human adaptation, with poultry meat implicated as a probable source.
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