High Rate of Transfer of Staphylococcus aureus from Parental Skin to Infant Gut Flora

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 530-534

  Lindberg, Erika ^a,b   Adlerberth, Ingegerd ^a   Hesselmar, Bill ^a   Saalman, Robert ^a   Strannegård, Inga Lisa ^a   Åberg, Nils ^a   Wold, Agnes E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Department of Clinical Bacteriology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD REARING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPETITION; DNA DETERMINATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FLORA; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RECTUM MUCOSA; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SWEDEN;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FAMILY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; PARENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 1242269312     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.530-534.2004     Document Type: Article

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