Genetic diversity of arginine catabolic mobile element in Staphylococcus epidermidis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Miragaia, Maria ^a   de Lencastre, Hermania ^a,b   Perdreau Remington, Francoise ^c   Chambers, Henry F ^c   Higashi, Julie ^d   Sullam, Paul M ^d   Lin, Jessica ^e   Wong, Kester I ^e   King, Katherine A ^e   Otto, Michael ^f   Sensabaugh, George F ^e   Diep, Binh An ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE DEIMINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SCCMEC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CATION; HYDROLASE;

ARGININE CATABOLIC MOBILE ELEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

CATIONS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HYDROLASES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 70450169955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007722     Document Type: Article

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