Staphylococcus aureus CC398 clade associated with human-to-human transmission.

ABSTRACT: Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (CC398) isolates colonize livestock and can spread to human contacts. Genetic analysis of isolates epidemiologically associated with human-to-human, but not livestock, transmission in multiple countries and continents identified a common clade that was negative for tet(M) and positive for bacteriophage 3. Another group of human-to-human-transmitted isolates belonged to the common livestock-associated clade but had acquired a unique 7 bacteriophage.

SUBMITTER: McCarthy AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3502926 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature