Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ΨUSA300 among Japanese people with HIV, resulted from stepwise mutations in 2010s

Abstract Although infection with the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone USA300 is extremely rare in Japan, the uniquely evolved clone ΨUSA300 has been reported in Japan. An outbreak of a distinct USA300 clone was recently reported in an HIV/AIDS referral hospital in Tokyo. The...

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Main Authors: Koh Shinohara, Yuki Uehara, Katsuji Teruya, Takashi Sasaki, Tadashi Baba, Hidemasa Nakaminami, Pegah Kananizadeh, Yuh Morimoto, Yoshimi Kikuchi, Shinichi Oka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35171-y