Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec): Guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4961-4967

  Ito, Teruyo ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a   Oliveira, Duarte C ^b   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^c,d   Zhang, Kunyan ^e   Westh, Henrik ^f   O'Brien, Frances ^g   Giffard, Philip M ^h   Coleman, David ⁱ   Tenover, Fred C ^j   Boyle Vavra, Susan ^k   Skov, Robert L ^l   Enright, Mark C ^m   Kreiswirth, Barry ⁿ   Kwan, Soo Ko ^o   Grundmann, Hajo ^p   Laurent, Fredric ^q   Sollid, Johanna E ^r   Kearns, Angela M ^s   Goering, Richard ^t   John, Joseph F ^u   Daum, Robert ^k   Soderquist, Bo ^v   more..

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

ⁱ TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^j CEPHEID   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^l STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^m IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^o Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^q CROIX ROUSSE HOSPITAL   (France)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^s PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^t CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^u RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^v ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CCRA PROTEIN; CCRB PROTEIN; CCRC PROTEIN; MEC PROTEIN; MECR1 PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HETEROZYGOTE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 71249083467     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00579-09     Document Type: Note

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