High genetic diversity among community-associated Staphylococcus aureus in Europe: results from a multicenter study.

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Published in PLoS One on April 27, 2012

Authors

Joana Rolo1, Maria Miragaia, Agata Turlej-Rogacka, Joanna Empel, Ons Bouchami, Nuno A Faria, Ana Tavares, Waleria Hryniewicz, Ad C Fluit, Hermínia de Lencastre, CONCORD Working Group

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1: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal.

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