Staphylococcus aureus CC398: host adaptation and emergence of methicillin resistance in livestock.

B Price, Lance; Stegger, Marc; Hasman, Henrik; Aziz, Maliha; Larsen, Jesper; Skytt Andersen, Paal; Pearson, Talima; E Waters, Andrew; T Foster, Jeffrey; Schupp, James; Gillece, John; Driebe, Elizabeth; M Liu, Cindy; Springer, Burkhard; Zdovc, Irena; Battisti, Antonio; Franco, Alessia; Zmudzki, Jacek; Schwarz, Stefan; Butaye, Patrick; Jouy, Eric; Pomba, Constanca; Concepción Porrero, M; Ruimy, Raymond; C Smith, Tara; Ashley Robinson, D; Scott Weese, J; Sofia Arriola, Carmen; Yu, Fangyou; Laurent, Frederic; Keim, Paul; Skov, Robert; M Aarestrup, Frank

doi:10.1128/mBio.00305-11

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Staphylococcus aureus CC398: host adaptation and emergence of methicillin resistance in livestock.

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Authors:

Lance B Price

Marc Stegger

Henrik Hasman

Abstract

Since its discovery in the early 2000s, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clonal complex 398 (CC398) has become a rapidly emerging cause of human infections, most often associated with livestock exposure. We applied whole-genome sequence typing to characterize a diverse collection o...

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