Has vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus started going it alone?

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9434, 2004, Pages 565-566

  Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a   Cui, Longzhu ^a   Kuwahara Arai, Kyoko ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL WALL; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUTATION; NOTE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ULCER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4143083020     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16867-0     Document Type: Note

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