Associations between Staphylococcus aureus genotype, infection, and in-hospital mortality: A nested case-control study

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 192, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1196-1200

  Wertheim, Heiman F L ^a   Van Leeuwen, Willem B ^a   Snijders, Susan ^a   Vos, Margreet C ^a   Voss, Andreas ^b   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^c   Kluytmans, Jan A J W ^d   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d AMPHIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLONE; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 25444505426     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/444427     Document Type: Article

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