The Molecular Epidemiology of the Highly Virulent ST93 Australian Community Staphylococcus aureus Strain

• Geoffrey W. Coombs ,

  * E-mail: Geoffrey.coombs@health.wa.gov.au

  Affiliations Australian Collaborating Centre for Enterococcus and Sdtaphylococcus Species (ACCESS) Typing and Research, PathWest Laboratory Medicine – Western Australia, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia

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• Richard V. Goering,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Kyra Y. L. Chua,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Austin Centre for Infection Research (ACIR), Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health, Victoria, Australia, Microbiology Department, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Austin Health. Victoria, Australia

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• Stefan Monecke,

  Affiliations Alere Technologies GmbH. Jena, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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• Benjamin P. Howden,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Austin Centre for Infection Research (ACIR), Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health, Victoria, Australia, Microbiology Department, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Austin Health. Victoria, Australia

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• Timothy P. Stinear,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Austin Health. Victoria, Australia

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• Ralf Ehricht,

  Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH. Jena, Germany

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• Frances G. O’Brien,

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia

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• Keryn J. Christiansen

  Affiliations Australian Collaborating Centre for Enterococcus and Sdtaphylococcus Species (ACCESS) Typing and Research, PathWest Laboratory Medicine – Western Australia, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia

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