MRSA Causing Infections in Hospitals in Greater Metropolitan New York: Major Shift in the Dominant Clonal Type between 1996 and 2014.

MRSA Causing Infections in Hospitals in Greater Metropolitan New York: Major Shift in the Dominant Clonal Type between 1996 and 2014.

A surveillance study in 1996 identified the USA100 clone (ST5/SCCmecII)-also known as the "New York/Japan" clone-as the most prevalent MRSA causing infections in 12 New York City hospitals. Here we update the epidemiology of MRSA in seven of the same hospitals eighteen years later in 2013/...

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Main Authors: Maria Pardos de la Gandara, Marie Curry, Judith Berger, David Burstein, Phyllis Della-Latta, Virgina Kopetz, John Quale, Eric Spitzer, Rexie Tan, Carl Urban, Guiqing Wang, Susan Whittier, Herminia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4896443?pdf=render

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