Cooccurrence of predominant Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive sequence type (ST) 152 and multidrug-resistant ST 241 Staphylococcus aureus clones in Nigerian Hospitals

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3000-3003

  Okon, Kenneth O ^a,c   Basset, Patrick ^b   Uba, Auwalu ^c   Lin, Johnson ^d   Oyawoye, Bukola ^c   Shittu, Adebayo O ^e   Blanc, Dominique S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI   (Nigeria)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EXOTOXINS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; NIGERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 69949107825     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01119-09     Document Type: Article

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