Mobile Genetic Element-Encoded Cytolysin Connects Virulence to Methicillin Resistance in MRSA

• Shu Y. Queck,

  Current address: Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Burhan A. Khan,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Rong Wang,

  Current address: Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Thanh-Huy L. Bach,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Dorothee Kretschmer,

  Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Medical Microbiology and Hygiene Department, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Liang Chen,

  Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Barry N. Kreiswirth,

  Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Andreas Peschel,

  Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Medical Microbiology and Hygiene Department, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Frank R. DeLeo,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Michael Otto

  * E-mail: motto@niaid.nih.gov

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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