Outbreak of mupirocin-resistant Staphylococci in a hospital in Warsaw, Poland, due to plasmid transmission and clonal spread of several strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2781-2788

  Łȩski, Tomasz A ^a   Gniadkowski, Marek ^a   Skoczyńska, Anna ^a   Stefaniuk, Elzbieta ^a   Trzciński, Krzysztof ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 19244376785     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.9.2781-2788.1999     Document Type: Article

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