Genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from Korea and Japan

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-286

  Ko, Kwan Soo ^a,b   Peck, Kyong Ran ^b   Oh, Won Sup ^b   Lee, Nam Yong ^b   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^c   Song, Jae Hoon ^a,b  

^a Asia Pacific Foundation for Infectious Diseases (APFID)   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; KOREA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; KOREA; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 26444463864     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2005.11.279     Document Type: Article

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