Comparison of biofilm formation between major clonal lineages of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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Published in PLoS One on August 08, 2014

Authors

Evelyn Vanhommerig¹, Pieter Moons¹, Daniel Pirici², Christine Lammens¹, Jean-Pierre Hernalsteens³, Henri De Greve⁴, Samir Kumar-Singh⁵, Herman Goossens¹, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar¹

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
2: Molecular pathology Group, Cell Biology and Histology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Research Methodology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
3: Viral Genetics Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
4: Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Structural and Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, Brussels, Belgium.
5: Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Molecular pathology Group, Cell Biology and Histology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

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