Co-evolutionary aspects of human colonisation and infection by Staphylococcus aureus

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-47

  van Belkum, Alex ^a   Melles, Damian C ^a   Nouwen, Jan ^a   van Leeuwen, Willem B ^a   van Wamel, Willem ^a   Vos, Margreet C ^a   Wertheim, Heiman F L ^a   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carriage; Co evolution; Genetic typing; Host susceptibility; Infection; Staphylopcoccus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MICROBIAL SURFACE COMPONENTS RECOGNIZING ADHESIVE MATRIX MOLECULE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLONAL VARIATION; COEVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 57549093803     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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