Fitness cost of SCCmec and methicillin resistance levels in Staphylococcus aureus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2295-2297

  Ender, Miriam ^a   McCallum, Nadine ^a   Adhikari, Rajan ^a,b   Berger Bächi, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH REGULATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCCMEC GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MUTATION; OXACILLIN; PENICILLINS; PLASMIDS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 2542459385     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.6.2295-2297.2004     Document Type: Article

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