Spread of old and new clones of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poland

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 481-488

  Murchan, Stephen ^a   Trzciñski, Krzysztof ^a   Skoczyñska, Anna ^a   Van Leeuwen, Willem ^b   Van Belkum, Alex ^b   Pietuszko, Slawomir ^c   Gadomski, Tadeusz ^c   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a  

^a Sera & Vaccines Central Research Laboratory Warszawa   (Poland)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Grajewo Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Genotyping; Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

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

EID: 0031717955     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00402.x     Document Type: Article

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