Spread of the multiresistant iberian clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to Italy and Scotland

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-112

  Mato, R ^a   Santos Sanches, I ^a,b   Venditti, M ^c   Platt, D J ^d   Brown, A ^d   Chung, M ^e   De Lencastre, H ^a,b,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENE PRODUCT; IMIPENEM; LINCOMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; NEOMYCIN; OXACILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

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

EID: 0031748661     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.107     Document Type: Article

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