Usefulness of mec-associated direct repeat unit (dru) typing in the epidemiological analysis of highly clonal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Scotland
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- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Clinical Microbiology & Infection
- Vol. 14 (10), 964-969
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02073.x
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