Spread of a methicillin-resistant and multiresistant epidemic clone of Staphylococcus aureus in Argentina

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 277-288

  Corso, A ^a,b   Sanches, I Santos ^a,c   De Sousa, M Aires ^a   Rossi, A ^b   De Lencastre, H ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; NEOMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; EPIDEMIC; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

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

EID: 0032413539     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.277     Document Type: Article

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