Use of variations in staphylococcal interspersed repeat units for molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

Katherine J Hardy, Beryl A Oppenheim, Savita Gossain, Fang Gao, Peter M Hawkey

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Abstract

Staphylococcal interspersed repeat unit typing has previously been shown to have the ability to discriminate between epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in the United Kingdom. The current study illustrates its ability to distinguish between strains within an endemic setting thereby providing a rapid transportable typing method for the identification of transmission events.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)271-273
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume44
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2006

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