Predominance and emergence of clones of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Malaysia.

• Main Authors: Ghaznavi-Rad , Ehsanollah, Shamsudin, Mariana Nor, Sekawi, Zamberi, Liew , Y. K., Aziz, Mohammad Nazri, Hamat, Rukman Awang, Othman, Norlijah, Chong, Pei Pei, Van Belkum, Alex, Ghasemzadeh Moghaddam, Hamed, Vasanthakumari Kumari , Neela
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16293/1/Predominance%20and%20emergence%20of%20clones%20of%20hospital.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16293/; http://www.asm.org/

We define the epidemiology of predominant and sporadic methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains in a central teaching and referral hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is done on the basis of spa sequencing, multilocus sequence typing (MLST), staphylococcal cassette chromosome...