Emergence of Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1206-1209

  Neofytos, Dionissios ^a   Kuhn, B ^b   Shen, S ^b   Zhu, X Hua ^c   Jungkind, D ^c   Flomenberg, P ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE CASSETTE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILADELPHIA; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 35348872476     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520746     Document Type: Article

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