New method for typing Staphylococcus aureus strains: Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis of polymorphism and genetic relationships of clinical isolates

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1801-1804

  Sabat, Artur ^a   Krzyszton Russjan, Jolanta ^b   Strzalka, Wojciech ^a   Filipek, Renata ^a   Kosowska, Klaudia ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^b   Travis, James ^c   Potempa, Jan ^a,c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Sera & Vaccines Central Research Laboratory Warszawa   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENOMIC DNA; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

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

EID: 12444304190     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.4.1801-1804.2003     Document Type: Article

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