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. 2009 Feb;15(2):285-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1502.080609.

Staphylococcus aureus ST398, New York City and Dominican Republic

Meera Bhat  1 , Caroline Dumortier, Barbara S Taylor, Maureen Miller, Glenny Vasquez, Jose Yunen, Karen Brudney, Jacqueline Sánchez-E, Carlos Rodriguez-Taveras, Rita Rojas, Patricia Leon, Franklin D Lowy
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Staphylococcus aureus ST398, New York City and Dominican Republic

Meera Bhat et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Feb.

Abstract

Closely related Staphylococcus aureus strains of ST398, an animal-associated strain, were identified in samples collected from humans in northern Manhattan, New York, NY, USA, and in the Dominican Republic. A large population in northern Manhattan has close ties to the Dominican Republic, suggesting international transmission.

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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles of sequence type 398 isolates from the Dominican Republic (D); northern Manhattan (M), New York, NY, USA; and Canada (C) (provided by Scott Weese). Strains within households in which >1 person was colonized are identified numerically. The dendrogram shows the percent similarity of the isolates. A similarity >70% indicates closely related or identical strains.
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