Disease-associated genotypes of the commensal skin bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis

Disease-associated genotypes of the commensal skin bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis

Staphylococcus epidermidis is carried asymptomatically by virtually all humans but is also a major cause of nosocomial infection. Here, the authors study 141 isolates from healthy carriage and 274 isolates from clinical infections, and identify genes and genetic elements associated with pathogenicit...

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Main Authors: Guillaume Méric, Leonardos Mageiros, Johan Pensar, Maisem Laabei, Koji Yahara, Ben Pascoe, Nattinee Kittiwan, Phacharaporn Tadee, Virginia Post, Sarah Lamble, Rory Bowden, James E. Bray, Mario Morgenstern, Keith A. Jolley, Martin C. J. Maiden, Edward J. Feil, Xavier Didelot, Maria Miragaia, Herminia de Lencastre, T. Fintan Moriarty, Holger Rohde, Ruth Massey, Dietrich Mack, Jukka Corander, Samuel K. Sheppard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07368-7

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07368-7

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