Historic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: expanding current knowledge using molecular epidemiological characterization of a Swiss legacy collection

Abstract Background Few methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from the early years of its global emergence have been sequenced. Knowledge about evolutionary factors promoting the success of specific MRSA multi-locus sequence types (MLSTs) remains scarce. We aimed to characterize a legac...

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Main Authors: Vanni Benvenga, Aline Cuénod, Srinithi Purushothaman, Gottfried Dasen, Maja Weisser, Stefano Bassetti, Tim Roloff, Martin Siegemund, Ulrich Heininger, Julia Bielicki, Marianne Wehrli, Paul Friderich, Reno Frei, Andreas Widmer, Kathrin Herzog, Hans Fankhauser, Oliver Nolte, Thomas Bodmer, Martin Risch, Olivier Dubuis, Sigrid Pranghofer, Romana Calligaris-Maibach, Susanne Graf, Vincent Perreten, Helena M. B Seth-Smith, Adrian Egli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-02-01
Series:Genome Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-024-01292-w