Recombinations in Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec Elements Compromise the Molecular Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

• Grant A. Hill-Cawthorne,

  Affiliations Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Lyndsey O. Hudson,

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

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• Moataz Fouad Abd El Ghany,

  Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Olaf Piepenburg,

  Affiliation TwistDx Ltd., Babraham, United Kingdom

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• Mridul Nair,

  Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Andrew Dodgson,

  Affiliation Microbiology Dept, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Matthew S. Forrest,

  Affiliation TwistDx Ltd., Babraham, United Kingdom

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• Taane G. Clark ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Taane G. Clark, Arnab Pain

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Arnab Pain

  Contributed equally to this work with: Taane G. Clark, Arnab Pain

  * E-mail: arnab.pain@kaust.edu.sa

  Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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