Identification of new phages to type Staphylococcus aureus strains and comparison with a genotypic method

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-67

  de Gialluly, C ^a   Loulergue, J ^a   Bruant, G ^b   Mereghetti, L ^b   Massuard, S ^a   van der Mee, N ^a,b   Audurier, A ^a   Quentin, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Antibiogram; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Phage typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis analysis; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; METICILLIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OXACILLIN; PEFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDICS; PHENOTYPE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRAUMATOLOGY; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE;

BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0142087678     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6701(03)00219-6     Document Type: Article

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