Molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Comparison of PCR-based open reading frame typing, multilocus sequence typing, and Staphylococcus protein A gene typing

Ogihara, S; Saito, R; Sawabe, E; Kozakai, T; Shima, M; Aiso, Y; Fujie, T; Nukui, Y; Koike, R; Hagihara, M; Tohda, S

Saito, R (reprint author), Tokyo Med & Dent Univ, Grad Sch Hlth Care Sci, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Bunkyo Ku, 1-5-45 Yushima, Tokyo 1138510, Japan.

JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY, 2018; 24 (4): 312

Abstract

The recently developed PCR-based open reading frame typing (POT) method is a useful molecular typing tool. Here, we evaluated the performance of POT f......

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