Journal article
Population structure of colonizing and invasive staphylococcus aureus strains in northern Vietnam
BNT Vu, AJ Jafari, M Aardema, HKT Tran, DNT Nguyen, TT Dao, TV Nguyen, TK Tran, CKT Nguyen, A Fox, AL Bañuls, G Thwaites, K Van Nguyen, HFL Wertheim
Journal of Medical Microbiology | MICROBIOLOGY SOC | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.000220
Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus is an important global health problem worldwide. There is still scarce information on the population structure of S. aureus strains in Asia, where the majority of the world population lives. This study characterized the diversity of S. aureus strains in northern Vietnam through multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Eighty-five carriage isolates from the community and 77 invasive isolates from the clinical setting were selected and tested for meticillin resistance and the presence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL). MLST was performed on these isolates, of which CC59 (25.4 %), CC188 (17.3 %) and CC45 (16.7 %) were the predominant clonal complexes (CCs). CC59 carriage isol..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme Vietnam. The funder had no role in the design of the study, or in the decision to draft the paper or to submit. The authors report no conflicts of interest.