The arginine catabolic mobile element and staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec linkage: Convergence of virulence and resistance in the USA300 clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 197, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1523-1530

  Diep, Binh An ^a,b   Stone, Gregory G ^c,e   Basuino, Li ^a   Graber, Christopher J ^a   Miller, Alita ^c   Des Etages, Shelley Ann ^c   Jones, Alison ^c   Palazzolo Ballance, Amy M ^d   Perdreau Remington, Françoise ^a   Sensabaugh, George F ^b   DeLeo, Frank R ^d   Chambers, Henry F ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 43949146900     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587907     Document Type: Article

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