Genome and virulence determinants of high virulence community-acquired MRSA

Lancet

Volumn 359, Issue 9320, 2002, Pages 1819-1827

  Baba, Tadashi ^a   Takeuchi, Fumihiko ^d,e   Kuroda, Makoto ^a   Yuzawa, Harumi ^a   Aoki, Ken Ichi ^b   Oguchi, Akio ^b   Nagai, Yoshimi ^b   Iwama, Natsuko ^c   Asano, Kazuyuki ^b   Naimi, Timothy ^f   Kuroda, Hiroko ^a   Cui, Longzhu ^a   Yamamoto, Kenji ^d   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND EVALUATION   (Japan)

^c NEW ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Org Pharmaceutical Safety and Res   (Japan)

^f MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0037172403     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08713-5     Document Type: Article

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