Extreme genetic diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis strains disseminated among healthy Japanese children

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3778-3783

  Jamaluddin, Tengku Zetty Maztura Tengku ^a   Kuwahara Arai, Kyoko ^a   Hisata, Ken ^a   Terasawa, Masahiko ^b   Cui, Longzhu ^a   Baba, Tadashi ^a   Sotozono, Chie ^c   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^c   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Terasawa Children's Clinic   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; JAPANESE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

IVA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 55849098022     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02262-07     Document Type: Article

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