Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus from clinical and community sources are genetically diverse.

• Main Authors: H., Ghasemzadeh-Moghaddam, E., Ghaznavi-Rad, Sekawi, Zamberi, Yun, Khoon L., M. N. , Aziz, Awang Hamat, Rukman, Melles, Damian C., Alex, Van Belkum, Nor Shamsudin, Mariana, Neela, Vasantha Kumari
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24571/1/Methicillin.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24571/; http://www.elsevier.com/

Despite the association of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) with several life-threatening diseases, relatively little is known about their clinical epidemiology in Malaysia. We characterized MSSA isolates (n=252) obtained from clinical and community (carriage) sources based on spa sequencing...