Hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) in Italy

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Campanile, Floriana ^a   Bongiorno, Dafne ^a   Stefani, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; ITALY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ITALY; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 67650709097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-8-22     Document Type: Article

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