A methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a new university hospital due to a strain transferred with an infected patient from another city six months previously

New Microbiologica

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-180

  Tansel, O ^a   Kuloglu F ^a   Mutlu, B ^b   Anthony, R M ^c   Uyar, A ^b   Vahaboglu H ^d   French, G L ^c  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Coagulase gene typing; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; COAGULASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

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

AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 0038142671     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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