Wide geographic distribution of a unique methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in Hungarian hospitals

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 289-296

  De Lencastre, Herminia ^a,b   Severina, Elena P ^a   Milch, Hedda ^c   Thege, Marianne Konkoly ^c   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c National Institute of Hygiene Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Epidemic clones; Molecular fingerprinting; MRSA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METICILLIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL; HUNGARY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

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

EID: 0030806509     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00616.x     Document Type: Article

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