Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec): Guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements

Teruyo Ito*, Keiichi Hiramatsu, Duarte C. Oliveira, Hermínia De Lencastre, Kunyan Zhang, Henrik Westh, Frances O'Brien, Philip M. Giffard, David Coleman, Fred C. Tenover, Susan Boyle-Vavra, Robert L. Skov, Mark C. Enright, Barry Kreiswirth, Soo Ko Kwan, Hajo Grundmann, Fredric Laurent, Johanna E. Sollid, Angela Kearns, Richard GoeringJoseph F. John, Robert Daum, Bo Soderquist

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)4961-4967
    Number of pages7
    JournalAntimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    Volume53
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2009

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