Typing of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec encoding methicillin resistance in staphylococcus aureus strains isolated at the bone marrow transplant centre of Tunisia

Current Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 380-385

  Bouchami, O ^a   Achour, W ^a   Ben Hassen, Assia ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUNISIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TUNISIA;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 69949170053     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-009-9448-1     Document Type: Article

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