Emergence of a new clone carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type V among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Greece

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 368-372

  Chini, Vassiliki ^a   Petinaki, Efthimia ^b   Meugnier, Héléne ^c   Foka, Antigoni ^a   Bes, Michele ^c   Etienne, Jerome ^c   Dimitracopoulos, George ^a   Spiliopoulou, Iris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; NETILMICIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL CLONE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GREECE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 42449118927     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701749230     Document Type: Article

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