Diverse enterotoxin gene profiles among clonal complexes of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the Bronx, New York

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6839-6849

  Varshney, Avanish K ^a   Mediavilla, José R ^b   Robiou, Natalie ^c   Guh, Alice ^d   Wang, Xiabo ^a   Gialanella, Philip ^d   Levi, Michael H ^d   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^b   Fries, Bettina C ^a,d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC DISEASE; CLINICAL STRAINS; CLONAL COMPLEX; CLONALITY; ENTEROTOXIN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC ELEMENTS; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; METHICILLIN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE RATES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; S. AUREUS; SELECTED STRAINS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL ENTEROTOXIN B; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE GENE;

BLOOD; BOND (MASONRY); ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES;

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B;

BIOASSAY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGC GENE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SED GENE; SEJ GENE; SER GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES; WOUND;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEW YORK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND INFECTION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 70350518256     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00272-09     Document Type: Article

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