Clonality of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates in a neonatal intensive care unit

Pathologie Biologie

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 337-342

  Ben Saida, N ^a   Ferjeni A ^a   Benhadjtaher, N ^b   Monastiri, K ^b   Boukadida, J ^a  

^a FARHAT HACHED HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Clonality; Methicillin; Neonatal intensive care unit; Resistance; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CULTURE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; DRUG EFFECT; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TUNISIA;

EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TUNISIA;

EID: 33745945686     PISSN: 03698114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patbio.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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