Typing of consecutive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from intensive care unit patients and staff with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-312

  Mueller Premru, M ^a   Muzlovic, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant; Staff nasal carriage; Staphylococcus aureus; Transmission with hands; Typing by PFGE

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORHEXIDINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; METICILLIN; MINOCYCLINE; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; INTENSIVE CARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NASAL MUCOSA; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SLOVENIA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRACHEA;

EID: 0032419130     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-8579(98)00056-9     Document Type: Article

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