Investigation of nosocomial infection caused by arbekacin-resistant, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 53-59

  Obayashi, Yuka ^a   Fujita, Jiro ^a   Ichiyama, Satoshi ^b   Hojo, Satoko ^a   Negayama, Kiyoshi ^a   Takashima, Chie ^a   Miyawaki, Hiroshi ^a   Tanabe, Tadao ^c   Yamaji, Yasufumi ^a   Kawanishi, Koichi ^a   Takahara, Jiro ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; HABEKACIN; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DIBEKACIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030748887     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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