Prevalence of agr dysfunction among colonizing Staphylococcus aureus strains

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 198, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1171-1174

  Shopsin, Bo ^a   Drlica Wagner, Alex ^b   Mathema, Barun ^b   Adhikari, Rajan P ^a   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^b   Novick, Richard P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGR GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE TRANSFER; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; NOSE; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 54749134947     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592051     Document Type: Article

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