Genetic Diversity of Staphylocoagulase Genes (coa): Insight into the Evolution of Variable Chromosomal Virulence Factors in Staphylococcus aureus

Shinya Watanabe; Teruyo Ito; Takashi Sasaki; Shanshuang Li; Ikuo Uchiyama; Kozue Kishii; Ken Kikuchi; Robert Leo Skov; Keiichi Hiramatsu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005714

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Genetic Diversity of Staphylocoagulase Genes (coa): Insight into the Evolution of Variable Chromosomal Virulence Factors in Staphylococcus aureus

Shinya Watanabe,

Current address: Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Teruyo Ito ,

* E-mail: teruybac@juntendo.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Takashi Sasaki,

Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Shanshuang Li,

Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Ikuo Uchiyama,

Affiliation National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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Kozue Kishii,

Current address: Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Agents, Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Ken Kikuchi,

Affiliations Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Robert Leo Skov,

Affiliation National Center for Antimicrobials and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Keiichi Hiramatsu

Affiliations Department of Infection Control Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Genetic Diversity of Staphylocoagulase Genes (coa): Insight into the Evolution of Variable Chromosomal Virulence Factors in Staphylococcus aureus

Shinya Watanabe,
Teruyo Ito,
Takashi Sasaki,
Shanshuang Li,
Ikuo Uchiyama,
Kozue Kishii,
Ken Kikuchi,
Robert Leo Skov,
Keiichi Hiramatsu

Published: May 27, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005714

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