Genome and virulence determinants of high virulence community-acquired MRSA.

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Published in Lancet on May 25, 2002

Authors

Tadashi Baba1, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Makoto Kuroda, Harumi Yuzawa, Ken-ichi Aoki, Akio Oguchi, Yoshimi Nagai, Natsuko Iwama, Kazuyuki Asano, Timothy Naimi, Hiroko Kuroda, Longzhu Cui, Kenji Yamamoto, Keiichi Hiramatsu

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1: Department of Bacteriology, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.

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