The Impact of the Staphylococcus aureus Virulome on Infection in a Developing Country: A Cohort Study

We performed a cohort study to analyze the virulome of Staphylococcus aureus from the Democratic Republic of the Congo using whole genome sequencing and to assess its impact on the course of S. aureus infections. Community-associated S. aureus from nasal colonization (n = 100) and infection (n = 86)...

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Main Authors: Marthe Lebughe, Patrick Phaku, Silke Niemann, Dieudonné Mumba, Georg Peters, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Alexander Mellmann, Lena Strauß, Frieder Schaumburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01662/full