Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus by Large Chromosomal Replacements
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Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus by large chromosomal replacements.
Conjugative transfer and replacement of hundreds of kilobases of a bacterial chromosome can occur in vitro, but replacements in nature are either an order of magnitude smaller or involve the movement of mobile genetic elements. We discovered that two lineages of Staphylococcus aureus, including a pandemic methicillin-resistant lineage, were founded by single chromosomal replacements of at least...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.4.1060-1064.2004