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SUBMITTER: Andre ED
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5572451 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 20170901 9
CC398 is a livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus. However, it has also been isolated from humans with no previous contact with livestock. A surveillance of methicillin-resistant S. aureus colonisation among children attending public day care centres and hospitals in Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2011 and 2013, resulted in the isolation of six cases of CC398 from individuals with no previous exposure to livestock. These isolates showed a high frequency of the erm(C) gene (4/6, ...[more]