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. 2015 Mar;53(3):1005-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.03049-14. Epub 2015 Jan 7.

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus argenteus infections in Thailand

Janjira Thaipadungpanit  1 , Premjit Amornchai  2 , Emma K Nickerson  3 , Gumphol Wongsuvan  2 , Vanaporn Wuthiekanun  2 , Direk Limmathurotsakul  4 , Sharon J Peacock  5
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Clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus argenteus infections in Thailand

Janjira Thaipadungpanit et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

Molecular typing of 246 Staphylococcus aureus isolates from unselected patients in Thailand showed that 10 (4.1%) were actually Staphylococcus argenteus. Contrary to the suggestion that S. argenteus is less virulent than S. aureus, we demonstrated comparable rates of morbidity, death, and health care-associated infection in patients infected with either of these two species.

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Phylogenetic tree of 246 putative S. aureus isolates based on concatenated sequences of 7 MLST loci using the maximum-likelihood method. Blue dots represent STs identified for the 246 study isolates, and black dots represent 38 STs downloaded from the MLST website (http://www.mlst.net). The colored ring denotes known or proposed species for each ST (yellow, S. aureus; gray, S. argenteus).
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