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First report on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus of Spa type T037, Sequence type 239, SCCmec type III/IIIA in Malaysia

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (2010) 29(1) 115-117
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-009-0813-6
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from Malaysia were shown to possess staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec)-III and IIIA. Spa sequencing and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) documented t037 and ST 239 (CC8) for 83.3% of the isolates. This confirms observations in several other Far Eastern countries and corroborates the epidemicity of this clone.

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Neela, V., Ghasemzadeh Moghaddam, H., Van Belkum, A., Horst-Kreft, D., Mariana, N. S., & Ghaznavi Rad, E. (2010). First report on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus of Spa type T037, Sequence type 239, SCCmec type III/IIIA in Malaysia. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 29(1), 115–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-009-0813-6

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