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Appl Environ Microbiol
; 78(24): 8845-8, 2012 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23042163
RESUMO
Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (CC398) isolates colonize livestock and can spread to human contacts. Genetic analysis of isolates epidemiologically associated with human-to-human, but not livestock, transmission in multiple countries and continents identified a common clade that was negative for tet(M) and positive for bacteriophage 3. Another group of human-to-human-transmitted isolates belonged to the common livestock-associated clade but had acquired a unique 7 bacteriophage.