Bridges from hospitals to the laboratory: genetic portraits of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureusclones
Open Access
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (2), 101-111
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0928-8244(03)00370-5
Abstract
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged in the early 1960s after the acquisition of the methicillin resistance gene mecA, which isKeywords
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