Focal Neurological Deficits and West Nile Virus Infection
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West Nile Virus Infection and Conjunctival Exposure
appear to have subsequently acquired methicillin resistance through horizontal transfer of SCCmec type IV. The spa type of the Italian isolate comprises 7 nucleotide repeats, indicated by XJ4AKAOM in the alphabetical code. This repeat sequence differs from that of the classical SWP clone, indicated by XKAKAOMQ (8), by only 1 bp in the second repeat and loss of the last Q repeat. In spite of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/428117