Ribotype delineation and description of Staphylococcus sciuri subspecies and their potential as reservoirs of methicillin resistance and staphylolytic enzyme genes

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 313-323

  Kloos, Wesley E ^a   Ballard, Deborah N ^a   Webster, John A ^b   Hubner, Romeo J ^b   Tomasz, Alexander ^c   Couto, Isabel ^c   Sloan, Gary L ^d   Dehart, Heather P ^d   Fiedler, Franz ^e   Schubert, Karin ^e   De Lencastre, Herminia ^c   Sanches, Ilda Santos ^c   Heath, Harry E ^d   Leblanc, Paul A ^d   Ljungh, Åsa ^f  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Qualicon   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; METICILLIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0031000143     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-47-2-313     Document Type: Article

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