Livestock Origin for a Human Pandemic Clone of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant <named-content content-type="genus-species">Staphylococcus aureus</named-content>

ABSTRACT The importance of livestock as a source of bacterial pathogens with the potential for epidemic spread in human populations is unclear. In recent years, there has been a global increase in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections of healthy humans...

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Main Authors: Laura E. Spoor, Paul R. McAdam, Lucy A. Weinert, Andrew Rambaut, Henrik Hasman, Frank M. Aarestrup, Angela M. Kearns, Anders R. Larsen, Robert L. Skov, J. Ross Fitzgerald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013-08-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00356-13