SCCmec typing in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains of animal origin

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 136-

  Jansen, Marc D ^a   Box, Adrienne T A ^a   Fluit, Ad C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DIGOXIGENIN;

ALLOTYPE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CCR C GENE; CCR GENE; CCR3 GENE; CCRA GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; MEC GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 58849100521     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1501.071647     Document Type: Letter

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