Recognition of SCCmec types according to typing pattern determined by multienzyme multiplex PCR-amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 6042-6047

  Van Der Zee, Anneke ^a   Heck, Max ^b   Sterks, Marcel ^a   Harpal, Airien ^a   Spalburg, Emile ^b   Kazobagora, Leonard ^a   Wannet, Wim ^b  

^a CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RELIABILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 30744476535     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6042-6047.2005     Document Type: Article

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