Emergence in Brazil of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying SCCmecIV that are related genetically to the USA800 clone

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1165-1172

  de Miranda, O P ^a   Silva Carvalho, M C ^a   Ribeiro, A ^a   Portela, F ^a   Cordeiro, R P ^b   Caetano, N ^b   Vidal, C F L ^c   Figueiredo, Agnes M S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Federal University of Pernambuco   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Clonal complex 5; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Paediatric clone; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; SCCmecIV; USA800

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MEC 4; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; POLYSTYRENE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; BRAZIL; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 35848939631     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01830.x     Document Type: Article

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