TY - JOUR AU - Satta, Giovanni AU - Ling, Clare Louise AU - Cunningham, Emma Shelley AU - McHugh, Timothy Daniel AU - Hopkins, Susan PY - 2013 DA - 2013/10/02 TI - Utility and limitations of Spa-typing in understanding the epidemiology of staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia isolates in a single University Hospital JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 398 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is a recognized cause of nosocomial infections with 8,767 SA bacteraemia (SAB) cases reported in England only in 2012. Different typing methods have been developed but they are not generally performed as a routine investigation in hospital laboratories. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-398 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-6-398 ID - Satta2013 ER -