Molecular Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Polymerase Chain Reaction: Distribution of the Typed Strains in Hospitals

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 694-699

  Tohda, Shuji ^a   Maruyama, Miki ^a   Nara, Nobuo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coagulase gene; dru sequence; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; PENICILLINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031241792     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.694     Document Type: Article

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