Historic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: expanding current knowledge using molecular epidemiological characterization of a Swiss legacy collection.
Vanni BenvengaAline CuénodSrinithi PurushothamanGottfried DasenMaja Weisser-RohacekStefano BassettiTim RoloffMartin SiegemundLaurence LacroixJulia Anna BielickiMarianne WehrliPaul FriderichReno FreiAndreas F WidmerKathrin HerzogHans FankhauserOliver NolteThomas BodmerMartin RischOlivier DubuisSigrid PranghoferRomana Calligaris-MaibachSusanne GrafVincent PerretenHelena M B Seth-SmithAdrian EgliPublished in: Genome medicine (2024)
The combined analysis of 1761 historic and contemporary MRSA isolates across more than 50 years uncovered novel STs and allowed us a glimpse into the lineage flux between Swiss-German and international MRSA across time.