Dissemination of Multisusceptible Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Singapore
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- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 43 (6) , 2923-2925
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.43.6.2923-2925.2005
Abstract
Analysis of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from a tertiary public hospital in Singapore revealed that multisusceptible strains had gradually started to replace the endemic multiresistant strain (ST239-MRSA-III) since 2002. Molecular typing showed that this was a predominantly clonal outbreak of a UK-EMRSA-15 strain (ST22-MRSA-IV).Keywords
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