Recurrence of heterogeneous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among the MRSA clinical isolates in a Japanese university hospital

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 324-328

  Kishii, Kozue ^a   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Watanabe, Shinya ^a   Okuzumi, Katsuko ^b   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

lactam antibiotics; Community associated MRSA; Healthcare associated MRSA; Population analysis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFDINIR; CEFDITOREN; CEFTIZOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOKYO;

EID: 47249160802     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn186     Document Type: Article

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