Novel type of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec identified in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1147-1152

  Xiao, Xue Ma ^a   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Tiensasitorn, Chuntima ^a   Jamklang, Mantana ^a   Chongtrakool, Piriyaporn ^a   Boyle Vavra, Susan ^a   Daum, Robert S ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTIZOXIME; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PROTEIN MEC; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0036203553     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.4.1147-1152.2002     Document Type: Article

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