Clonal association of Staphylococcus aureus causing bullous impetigo and the emergence of new methicillin-resistant clonal groups in Kansai district in Japan

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1511-1516

  Yamaguchi, Takayuki ^a   Yokota, Yoshiko ^b   Terajima, Jun ^c   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^d   Aepfelbacher, Martin ^e   Ohara, Masaru ^a   Komatsuzawa, Hitoshi ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^c   Sugai, Motoyuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Pharma Clinical Research   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFACLOR; CEFCAPENE; CEFDINIR; CEFDITOREN; CEFOTIAM; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTERAM; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; EXFOLIATIN; FROPENEM; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMPETIGO BULLOSA; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BLISTER; DNA, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IMPETIGO; JAPAN; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OUTPATIENTS; PENICILLINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0037094125     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340212     Document Type: Article

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