Molecular surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat fingerprinting (formerly multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis) and spa typing in a hierarchic approach

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-262

  Karynski, Michal ^a   Sabat, Artur J ^a   Empel, Joanna ^a   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

MLVA; MLVF; MRSA; spa typing; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT FINGERPRINTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN A GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPA GENE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 53949119137     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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