Survey of nasal colonization by, and assessment of a novel multiplex PCR method for detection of biofilm-forming methicillin-resistant staphylococci in healthy medical students

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-223

  Miyamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Imamura, K ^a   Kojima, A ^a   Takenaka, H ^a   Hara, N ^a   Ikenouchi, A ^a   Tanabe, T ^a   Taniguchi, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Methicillin resistant; Multiplex PCR; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFDITOREN; CEFOTIAM; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLOMOXEF; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HABEKACIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MANNITOL; METICILLIN; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PENICILLIN G; POLYSTYRENE; PRIMER DNA; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEMASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE TRANSPEPTIDASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CARRIER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STUDENT; NONHUMAN; NOSE INFECTION; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; JAPAN; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE MUCOSA; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BIOFILMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; NASAL MUCOSA; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037636444     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1374     Document Type: Article

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