Multisensitive community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Malaysia

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 437-439

  Sam, I Ching ^a   Kahar Bador, Maria ^a   Chan, Yoke Fun ^a   Loong, Shih Keng ^a   Mohd Nor Ghazali, Fadzilah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Community acquired infection; Malaysia; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Multilocus sequence typing; Panton Valentine leukocidin

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAYSIA; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 56049122394     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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