Methicillin resistant staphylococci, mechanisms of resistance, virulence factors and methods of molecular typing;Gronkowce metycylinooporne: Mechanizmy oporności, czynniki zjadliwości oraz metody genotypowania

Postepy Mikrobiologii

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 401-418

  Łopaciuk, Urszula ^a   Dzierzanowska, Danuta ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CARBENICILLIN; DRUG BINDING PROTEIN; GENTAMICIN; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; MEZLOCILLIN; NETILMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINASE; PIPERACILLIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TOBRAMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CROSS RESISTANCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE;

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

EID: 0036905828     PISSN: 00794252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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