Epidemiological typing of MRSA isolates from blood cultures taken in Irish hospitals participating in the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (1999-2003)

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-89

  Rossney, A S ^a   Lawrence, M J ^a   Morgan, P M ^a   Fitzgibbon, M M ^a   Shore, A ^b   Coleman, D C ^b   Keane, C T ^a   O'Connell, B ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOTYPE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; IRELAND; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; IRELAND; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 32544449595     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-006-0091-5     Document Type: Article

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