The evolution of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: Similarity of genetic backgrounds in historically early methicillin-susceptible and -resistant isolates and contemporary epidemic clones

The key genetic component of methicillin resistance, the mecA determinant, is not native to Staphylococcus aureus. Thus, the evolution of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) must have begun with the acquisition of the mecA determinant from an unknown heterologous source some time before the first...

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Auteurs principaux: Crisóstomo, M. Inês, Westh, Henrik, Tomasz, Alexander, Chung, Marilyn, Oliveira, Duarte C., de Lencastre, Hermínia
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: National Academy of Sciences 2001
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Biological Sciences
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC55544/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11481426
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.161272898
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