Insights on evolution of virulence and resistance from the complete genome analysis of an early methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain and a biofilm-producing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis strain.

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Published in J Bacteriol on April 01, 2005

Authors

Steven R Gill1, Derrick E Fouts, Gordon L Archer, Emmanuel F Mongodin, Robert T Deboy, Jacques Ravel, Ian T Paulsen, James F Kolonay, Lauren Brinkac, Mauren Beanan, Robert J Dodson, Sean C Daugherty, Ramana Madupu, Samuel V Angiuoli, A Scott Durkin, Daniel H Haft, Jessica Vamathevan, Hoda Khouri, Terry Utterback, Chris Lee, George Dimitrov, Lingxia Jiang, Haiying Qin, Jan Weidman, Kevin Tran, Kathy Kang, Ioana R Hance, Karen E Nelson, Claire M Fraser

Author Affiliations

1: Microbial Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Dr., Rockville, MD 20850, USA. srgill@tigr.org

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