Tracing the origin of an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in a Portuguese hospital by molecular fingerprinting methods

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-329

  Santos Sanches, I ^a   Aires De Sousa, M ^a   Cleto, L ^b   Baeta De Campos, M ^b   De Lencastre, H ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b Hospital de Sousa Martins   (Portugal)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDICS; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029776446     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1996.2.319     Document Type: Article

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