Macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin B resistance in a dominant clone of Australian community methicillin-resistant: Staphylococcus aureus [4]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 985-986

  O'Brien, Frances G ^a   Zaini, Zainun ^a   Coombs, Geoffrey W ^a   Pearson, Julie C ^b   Christiansen, Keryn ^a   Grubb, Warren B ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community acquired infections; Plasmids; Resistance genes

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL RNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIKAMYCIN B; RNA 23S;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMETHYLATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOGRAMIN B;

EID: 27744474992     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dki351     Document Type: Letter

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