Hospital infection caused by non-typable Staphylococcus aureus: application of reverse typing.
Hospital infections caused by strains of Staphylococcus aureus non-typable (NT) by phages have occurred in three Spanish hospitals since 1981. Reverse typing allowed characterization of the strains in all three cases.
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Berrón
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D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008242:Lysogeny; D013030:Spain; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D013204:Staphylococcus Phages; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification*