Staphylococcus aureus CC398: host adaptation and emergence of methicillin resistance in livestock.

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Published in MBio on February 21, 2012

Authors

Lance B Price1, Marc Stegger, Henrik Hasman, Maliha Aziz, Jesper Larsen, Paal Skytt Andersen, Talima Pearson, Andrew E Waters, Jeffrey T Foster, James Schupp, John Gillece, Elizabeth Driebe, Cindy M Liu, Burkhard Springer, Irena Zdovc, Antonio Battisti, Alessia Franco, Jacek Zmudzki, Stefan Schwarz, Patrick Butaye, Eric Jouy, Constanca Pomba, M Concepción Porrero, Raymond Ruimy, Tara C Smith, D Ashley Robinson, J Scott Weese, Carmen Sofia Arriola, Fangyou Yu, Frederic Laurent, Paul Keim, Robert Skov, Frank M Aarestrup

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1: Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Pathogen Genomics Division, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. lprice@tgen.org

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