Strain relatedness of endemic MRSA isolates in a burns unit in South India - A five year study

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 181-184

  Krishnan, P U ^a,b   Mahalakshmi, P ^a   Shetty, N ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burns unit; MRSA; South India

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BURN UNITS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0036834012     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1283     Document Type: Article

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