Multilocus Sequence Typing for Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Clones of<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>

C. Enright, Mark; Day, Nicholas; E. Davies, Catrin; J. Peacock, Sharon; G. Spratt, Brian

doi:10.1128/jcm.38.3.1008-1015.2000

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Multilocus Sequence Typing for Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Clones ofStaphylococcus aureus

Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology • Mar 1, 2000

Authors:

Mark C. Enright

Nicholas Day

Catrin E. Davies

Abstract

A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme has been developed for Staphylococcus aureus. The sequences of internal fragments of seven housekeeping genes were obtained for 155 S. aureus isolates from patients with community-acquired and hospital-acquired invasive disease in the Oxford, United Kingdom...

Subject

Multilocus sequence typing

Biology

Staphylococcus aureus

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