Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive methicillin-susceptible and resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Taiwan: identification of oxacillin-susceptible mecA-positive methicillin-resistant S. aureus

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 351-357

  Chen, Feng Jui ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^b   Huang, I Wen ^a   Wang, Chen Her ^a   Lauderdale, Tsai Ling Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA); Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM DERIVATIVE; CEFOXITIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; PROTEIN A;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAIWAN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CEFOXITIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXACILLIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TAIWAN;

EID: 71849087367     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.07.024     Document Type: Article

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