Unusual form of oxacillin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical strains

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 387-395

  Forbes, Betty A ^a   Bombicino, Karina ^b   Plata, Konrad ^b   Cuirolo, Arabela ^b   Webber, Dawn ^a   Bender, Connie L ^a   Rosato, Adriana E ^b  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogenecity; mecA; MRSA; Oxacillin resistance; S. aureus

Indexed keywords

OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE INSERTION; GENE PROBE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 47149096547     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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