Spread of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals in Taipei, Taiwan in 2005, and comparison of its drug resistance with previous hospital-acquired MRSA

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 627-632

  Takano, Tomomi ^a   Saito, Kohei ^a   Teng, Lee Jene ^b   Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial agents; Drug resistance; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Panton Valentine leucocidin (PVL)

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; HABEKACIN; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PEDIATRICS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34250802578     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03949.x     Document Type: Article

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