Macrolide-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in cystic fibrosis patients: Is there transmission to household contacts?

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 665-668

  Tramper Stranders, Gerdien A ^a   van der Ent, Cornelis K ^a   Gerritsen, Susan A M ^a   Fleer, André ^a   Kimpen, Jan L L ^a   Wolfs, Tom F W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Macrolide resistance; S. aureus; Staphylococcal transmission

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIFFUSION; GENOTYPE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PREVALENCE; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASAL CAVITY; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 34548138993     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm235     Document Type: Article

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