Roles of 34 virulence genes in the evolution of hospital- and community-associated strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 193, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1495-1503

  Diep, Binh An ^a,b   Carleton, Heather A ^a   Chang, Richard F ^b   Sensabaugh, George F ^b   Perdreau Remington, Françoise ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENTEROTOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROTOXIN A GENE; ENTEROTOXIN Q GENE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVOLUTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOSPITAL; K GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CC30; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CC8; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE IV; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1 GENE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOTOXINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SAN FRANCISCO; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 33646929455     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503777     Document Type: Article

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