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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lilje B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5729915 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Microbial genomics 20171101 11
Most Staphylococcus aureus isolates can cause invasive disease given the right circumstances, but it is unknown if some isolates are more likely to cause severe infections than others. S. aureus bloodstream isolates from 120 patients with definite infective endocarditis and 121 with S. aureus bacteraemia without infective endocarditis underwent whole-genome sequencing. Genome-wide association analysis was performed using a variety of bioinformatics approaches including SNP analysis, accessory ge ...[more]