Emergence of rifampicin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated at a Turkish university hospital

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-52

  Tosun, Ilknur ^a   Udo, Edet E ^b   Noronha, Bobby ^b   Caylan, Rahmet ^a   Aydin, Faruk ^a   Yetiskul, Serpil ^a   Koksal, Iftihar ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CADMIUM ACETATE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COAGULASE; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; METICILLIN; MINOCYCLINE; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PLASMID DNA; PROPAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPING; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

COAGULASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RIFAMPIN; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TURKEY; UREASE;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 14944359168     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2005.11.48     Document Type: Article

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