Population Structure of a Hybrid Clonal Group of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, ST239-MRSA-III

• Davida S. Smyth,

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

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• Linda K. McDougal,

  Affiliation Office of Antimicrobial Resistance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Frode W. Gran,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

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• Anand Manoharan,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine Unit I and Infectious Diseases, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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• Mark C. Enright,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Jae-Hoon Song,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Herminia de Lencastre,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• D. Ashley Robinson

  * E-mail: darobinson@microbio.umsmed.edu

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

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