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Case Reports
. 2018 Mar 13;6(5):871-874.
doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1442. eCollection 2018 May.

A case of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus wound infection: phylogenetic analysis to establish if nosocomial or community acquired

Francesco Cancilleri  1 , Massimo Ciccozzi  2 , Marta Fogolari  2 , Eleonora Cella  2 , Lucia De Florio  2 , Alessandra Berton  1 , Giuseppe Salvatore  1 , Giordano Dicuonzo  3 , Silvia Spoto  4 , Vincenzo Denaro  1 , Silvia Angeletti  2
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A case of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus wound infection: phylogenetic analysis to establish if nosocomial or community acquired

Francesco Cancilleri et al. Clin Case Rep. .

Abstract

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is rapidly increasing in both hospital and community settings. A 71-year-old man admitted at the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, with MRSA wound infection consequent to orthopedic surgery was studied and the MRSA transmission evaluated by phylogenetic analysis.

Keywords: MRSA infection; nosocomial infection control; phylogenetic analysis.

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Maximum parsimony tree representing relatedness of DNA tuf gene sequences. *Symbol corresponds to bootstrap value more than 75%. Isolate from patient is marked in red.
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