Prevalence and mechanisms of macrolide resistance among Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neutropenic patients in Tunisia

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-106

  Bouchami, O ^a   Achour, W ^a   Ben Hassen, Assia ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; IcaA gene; Macrolide resistance genes; Resistance; Staphylococcus epidermidis; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; GENTAMICIN; LINCOMYCIN; MACROLIDE; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; PROTEIN ERMA; PROTEIN ERMC; PROTEIN ICAA; PROTEIN MEFA; PROTEIN VAT; PROTEIN VGA; PROTEIN VGB; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TUNISIA;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 33845298651     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01567.x     Document Type: Article

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