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SUBMITTER: Golding GR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3321955 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Golding George R GR Bryden Louis L Levett Paul N PN McDonald Ryan R RR Wong Alice A Wylie John J Graham Morag R MR Tyler Shaun S Van Domselaar Gary G Simor Andrew E AE Gravel Denise D Mulvey Michael R MR
Emerging infectious diseases 20100401 4
Rates of colonization with livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sequence type 398 have been high for pigs and pig farmers in Canada, but prevalence rates for the general human population are unknown. In this study, 5 LA-MRSA isolates, 4 of which were obtained from skin and soft tissue infections, were identified from 3,687 tested MRSA isolates from persons in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada. Further molecular characterization determined that these isolates al ...[more]