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DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 343-347Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.008
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA); Hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA); SCCmec
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- University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina [B086]
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Technologica (Buenos Aires. Argentina) [PICT 14234]
- Department of Internal Medicine
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
- University of Buenos Aires
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Sixty-nine community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus recovered in 6 healthcare centers from northeastern and eastern Argentina were genotyped by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The predominant pulsotype was widely distributed harbored SCCmec type IV and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes. Representative isolates were characterized by multilocus sequence typing and spa typing, demonstrating that this clone belonged to ST5 and spa type 311. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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