Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, eastern Argentina

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-347

  Gardella, Noella ^a   von Specht, Martha ^b   Cuirolo, Arabela ^c   Rosato, Adriana ^c   Gutkind, Gabriel ^a   Mollerach, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Público Provincial de Pediatría   (Argentina)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community acquired MRSA (CA MRSA); Hospital acquired MRSA (HA MRSA); Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); SCCmec

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; HEALTH CENTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 54049128074     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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