Commensal isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis are also well equipped to produce biofilm on polystyrene surfaces

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 855-864

  de Araujo, Gabrielle Luck ^a   Coelho, Leonardo Rocchetto ^b   de Carvalho, Camila Barbosa ^a   Maciel, Rafael Muniz ^a   Coronado, Amada Zambrana ^b   Rozenbaum, Ronaldo ^c   Teixeira Ferreira Carvalho, Bernadete ^b   Sá Figueiredo, Agnes Marie ^b   Teixeira, Lenise Arneiro ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL SAMARITANO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

aap; atlE; Biofilm; ica; MRSE

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION TO ACCUMULATION PROTEIN; ATLE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PENICILLIN G; POLYSACCHARIDE INTERCELLULAR ADHESIN; POLYSTYRENE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BRAZIL; COMMENSALISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSTYRENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 33645830493     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl071     Document Type: Article

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