A novel type-III staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) variant among Indian isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-148

  Arakere, Gayathri ^a   Nadig, Savitha ^a   Ito, Teruyo ^b   Ma, Xiao Xue ^b   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ccrC; hsdR; Indian variants; mer operon; Type III SCCmec cassette

Indexed keywords

OXACILLIN; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CCRC GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HSRR GENE; HUMAN; INDIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INDIA; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 59349091023     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01482.x     Document Type: Article

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