Emergence and spread in French hospitals of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with increasing susceptibility to gentamicin and other antibiotics

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3452-3457

  Lelièvre, Hervé ^a   Lina, Gerard ^a   Jones, Mark E ^h,i   Olive, Claude ^b   Forey, Françoise ^a   Roussel Delvallez, Micheline ^c   Nicolas Chanoine, Marie Hélène ^d   Bébéar, Cécile M ^e   Jarlier, Vincent ^f   Andremont, Antoine ^g   Vandenesch, François ^a   Etienne, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE FORT DE FRANCE   (France)

^c Hôpital Calmette   (Guadeloupe)

^d HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^e HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^f PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^g BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

ⁱ MRL Pharmaceutical Services   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENACONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PRISTINAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FRANCE; GENE DELETION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 0344069700     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.11.3452-3457.1999     Document Type: Article

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