Methicillin-resistant staphylococci in patients with skin and wound infections

Biologia - Section Cellular and Molecular Biology

Volumn 56, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2001, Pages 37-42

  Slobodníková, Lívia ^a   Kotulová, Daniela ^a   Klokočníková, L'ubica ^a   Longauerová, Andrea ^a   Švantnerová, Ivana ^a   Bujdáková, Helena ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; mecA gene; Methicillin resistance; PBP2a; Skin infections; Staphylococcus aureus; Wound infections

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347872541     PISSN: 13356399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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