Molecular Characterization of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Intensive Care Units in Iran: ST22-SCCmec IV/t790 Emerges as the Major Clone

• Mehdi Goudarzi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Hossein Goudarzi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo,

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia Medica, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Edet E. Udo,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Maryam Fazeli,

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad Asadzadeh,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Sima Sadat Seyedjavadi

  * E-mail: sima_seyedjavadi@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Medical Mycology, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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