Molecular epidemiology of Stayhylococcus aureus strains colonizing the lungs of related and unrelated cystic fibrosis patients

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 216-221

  Renders, Nicole H M ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a   Overbeek, Shelley E ^a   Mouton, Johan W ^a   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis; Molecular typing; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030922022     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00600.x     Document Type: Article

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