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Jan 21, 2010

Jan 21, 2010

New tool helps trace MRSA's local, global spread

(CIDRAP News) – A multi-national team of researchers has applied a new genomic tool to a 50-year-old bacterial foe, using minute mutations to track the spread of drug-resistant staph both across continents and within a single hospital.

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