Use of variations in staphylococcal interspersed repeat units for molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 271-273

  Hardy, Katherine J ^a,b   Oppenheim, Beryl A ^a   Gossain, Savita ^a   Gao, Fang ^a   Hawkey, Peter M ^a,b  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; EPIDEMIC; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 30744450539     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.1.271-273.2006     Document Type: Article

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