Multilocus Sequence Typing and Further Genetic Characterization of the Enigmatic Pathogen, Staphylococcus hominis

• Liangfen Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Jonathan C. Thomas,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Maria Miragaia,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Ons Bouchami,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Fernando Chaves,

  Affiliation Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

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• Pedro A. d’Azevedo,

  Affiliation Universidade Federal de Ciencias de Saude de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• David M. Aanensen,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Herminia de Lencastre,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Barry M. Gray,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

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• D. Ashley Robinson

  * E-mail: darobinson@umc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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