DNA typing and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at two affiliated hospitals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-48

  Hartstein, Alan I ^a,b   LeMonte, Ann M ^a   Iwamoto, Pamela K L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INDIANA; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030638831     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141963     Document Type: Article

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