Diversity of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec structures in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus haemolyticus strains among outpatients from four countries

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 442-449

  Ruppé, Etienne ^a,b   Barbier, François ^a,b   Mesli, Yasmine ^a,c   Maiga, Aminata ^a,d   Cojocaru, Radu ^a,e   Benkhalfat, Mokhtar ^c   Benchouk, Samia ^c   Hassaine, Hafida ^f   Maiga, Ibrahim ^d   Diallo, Amadou ^d   Koumaré, Abdel Karim ^d   Ouattara, Kalilou ^d   Soumaré, Sambou ^d   Dufourcq, Jean Baptiste ^g   Nareth, Chhor ^g   Sarthou, Jean Louis ^h   Andremont, Antoine ^a,b   Ruimy, Raymond ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c Ctr Hosp Universitaire de Tlemcen   (Algeria)

^d Point G Hospital   (Mali)

^e National Scientific Practical Institute for Preventive Medicine   (Moldova)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

^g Hopital Calmette   (Cambodia)

^h INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PRISTINAMYCIN; RIFAMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALGERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMBODIA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALI; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; MOLDOVA; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; OUTPATIENT; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

ALGERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLDOVA; OUTPATIENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 59749101868     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00724-08     Document Type: Article

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