Large mobile genetic elements carrying resistance genes that do not confer a fitness burden in healthcare-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

The distribution of plasmids that carry virulence and resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus is lineage associated

(2012) Alex J McCarthy et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Fitness cost: a bacteriological explanation for the demise of the first international methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemic

(2012) Karen L. Nielsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Shift in dominant hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) clones over time

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Detection of Mobile-Genetic-Element Variation between Colonizing and Infecting Hospital-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates

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Major Families of Multiresistant Plasmids from Geographically and Epidemiologically Diverse Staphylococci

(2011) Julia E. S. Shearer et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Genetic variation in Staphylococcus aureus surface and immune evasion genes is lineage associated: implications for vaccine design and host-pathogen interactions

(2010) Alex J McCarthy et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Offsetting virulence and antibiotic resistance costs by MRSA

(2010) James Collins et al.   ISME Journal

Are Nasal Carriers of Staphylococcus aureus More Likely To Become Colonized or Infected with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus on Admission to a Hospital?

(2010) J. Krebes et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2010) Frank R DeLeo et al.   LANCET

Antibiotic resistance and its cost: is it possible to reverse resistance?

(2010) Dan I. Andersson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Analysis of the prototypical Staphylococcus aureus multiresistance plasmid pSK1

(2010) Slade O. Jensen et al.   PLASMID

Geographic Distribution of Staphylococcus aureus Causing Invasive Infections in Europe: A Molecular-Epidemiological Analysis

(2010) Hajo Grundmann et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Genomic variation and evolution of Staphylococcus aureus

(2009) Jodi A. Lindsay   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Acquisition of High-Level Mupirocin Resistance and Its Fitness Cost among Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains with Low-Level Mupirocin Resistance

(2009) K. Mongkolrattanothai et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Reclassification ofStaphylococcus aureusNasal Carriage Types

(2009) Alex van Belkum et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The evolution of Staphylococcus aureus

(2008) Ruud H. Deurenberg et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element and Staphylococcal Chromosomal CassettemecLinkage: Convergence of Virulence and Resistance in the USA300 Clone of Methicillin‐ResistantStaphylococcus aureus

(2008) Binh An Diep et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES