Successful multiresistant community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage from Taipei, Taiwan, that carries either the novel staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec (SCCmec) type VT or SCCmec type IV

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4719-4730

  Boyle Vavra, Susan ^a   Ereshefsky, Ben ^a   Wang, Chih Chien ^b   Daum, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; LEUKOCIDIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CASSETTE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LUKF PV GENE; LUKS PV GENE; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CHROMOSOME CASSETTE MEC IV; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CHROMOSOME CASSETTE MEC V T; TAIWAN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TAIWAN;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 24744455454     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.9.4719-4730.2005     Document Type: Article

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