Virtually all Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infections in the largest Portuguese teaching hospital are caused by two internationally spread multiresistant strains: The 'Iberian' and the 'Brazilian' clones of MRSA

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 373-384

  Oliveira, D ^a   Santos Sanches, I ^a,b   Mato, R ^a   Tamayo, M ^a,c   Ribeiro, G ^d   Costa, D ^d   De Lencastre, H ^a,b,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^d CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal types; Molecular typing; MRSA; Multidrug resistance; Survey

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; SPECTINOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHROMOSOME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRANSPOSON;

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

EID: 0031851051     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00081.x     Document Type: Article

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