Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from atopic patients revealing presence of similar strains in isolates from children and their parents

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 456-461

  Bonness, Sonja ^a   Szekat, Christiane ^a   Novak, Natalija ^a   Bierbaum, Gabriele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEB GENE; SEG GENE; SEI GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PARENTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 38949183676     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01734-07     Document Type: Article

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