Extensive Horizontal Gene Transfer during Staphylococcus aureus Co-colonization In Vivo

Staphylococcus aureus is a commensal and major pathogen of humans and animals. Comparative genomics of S. aureus populations suggests that colonization of different host species is associated with carriage of mobile genetic elements (MGE), particularly bacteriophages and plasmids capable of encoding...

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Published in:Genome Biol Evol
Main Authors: McCarthy, Alex J., Loeffler, Anette, Witney, Adam A., Gould, Katherine A., Lloyd, David H., Lindsay, Jodi A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224341/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25260585
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evu214
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