Molecular, antibiogram and serological typing of staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from Al-Makased hospital in East Jerusalem

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 576-583

  Essawi, Tamer ^a   Na'was, Tarek ^b   Hawwari, Abbass ^c   Wadi, Suzan ^a   Doudin, Anwar ^d   Fattom, Ali Ibrahim ^c,e  

^a BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c Nabi   (United States)

^d Al Makased Hospital   (Palestine)

^e Nabi Biopharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Nosocomial infection; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; ISRAEL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARABS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENOTYPE; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031857355     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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