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CLASSIFICATION of strains of staphylococci by their reactions to bacteriophages has been extensively used in epidemiological studies of staphylococcal infection. Thus three main groups of these organisms can be separated, and strains belonging to different groups have been considered to be unrelated. For example, a patient who is infected with a strain of one group, when later found to be infected with a strain belonging to another group, is regarded as having suffered a second infection from a different source.
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GOULD, J. Origin of Penicillin-resistant Staphyfococcus pyogenes . Nature 176, 176 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176176a0
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