Meticillin-heteroresistant Staphylococcus pasteuri from an apheresis platelet product

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1527-1528

  Savini, Vincenzo ^a   Bianco, Azaira ^a   Catavitello, Chiara ^a   Balbinot, Andrea ^a   Pompilio, Arianna ^b   Piccolomini, Raffaele ^b   Di Bonaventura, Giovanni ^b   Iacone, Antonio ^a   D'Antonio, Domenico ^a  

^a SPIRITO SANTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APHERESIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PASTEURI; THROMBOCYTOPOIESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLATELETPHERESIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 70350503059     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.008193-0     Document Type: Letter

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