Survival of Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in the human nose after artificial inoculation.

Survival of Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in the human nose after artificial inoculation.

There is evidence that MRSA ST398 of animal origin is only capable of temporarily occupying the human nose, and it is therefore, often considered a poor human colonizer.We inoculated 16 healthy human volunteers with a mixture of the human MSSA strain 1036 (ST931, CC8) and the bovine MSSA strain 5062...

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Main Authors: Bibi C G C Slingerland, Mehri Tavakol, Alex J McCarthy, Jodi A Lindsay, Susan V Snijders, Jaap A Wagenaar, Alex van Belkum, Margreet C Vos, Henri A Verbrugh, Willem J B van Wamel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3498341?pdf=render

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