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Within-host diversity of MRSA antimicrobial resistances
Author(s) -
Kinga I. Stanczak-Mrozek,
Anusha Manne,
Gwenan M. Knight,
Katherine A. Gould,
Adam A. Witney,
Jodi A. Lindsay
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkv119
Subject(s) - prophage , mobile genetic elements , biology , antibiotic resistance , horizontal gene transfer , plasmid , sccmec , microbiology and biotechnology , multilocus sequence typing , lineage (genetic) , human pathogen , carriage , genetics , antibiotics , gene , virology , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , genome , bacteriophage , staphylococcus aureus , genotype , medicine , bacteria , escherichia coli , pathology
MRSA is a major antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pathogen. The reservoir of infecting isolates is colonization, which is the site of evolutionary selection. The aim was to identify if AMRs in colonizing MRSA populations diversified and potential mechanisms of resistance gene transfer in vivo.

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