Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from clinical specimens of patients with nosocomial infection: Are there unnoticed silent outbreaks?

New Microbiologica

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-137

  Tekerekoglu, Mehmet Sait ^a   Ay, Selma ^a   Otlu, Baris ^a   Çiçek, Aysegul ^a   Kayabaş, Üner ^a   Durmaz, Riza ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Molecular typing; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MECA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TURKEY;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34250881607     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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