MRSA USA300 clone and VREF - A U.S.-Colombian connection?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2177-2179

  Arias, Cesar A ^a   Rincon, Sandra ^b   Chowdhury, Shahreen ^a   Martínez, Ernesto ^c   Coronell, Wilfrido ^d   Reyes, Jinnethe ^b   Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R ^a   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^d Hospital Bocagrande   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTHRITIS; BACTEREMIA; COLOMBIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MENINGITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORTALITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56249141148     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc0804021     Document Type: Letter

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