Occurrence and genotyping using automated repetitive-sequence-based PCR of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in Southeast Austria

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-221

  Grisold, Andrea J ^a   Zarfel, Gernot ^a   Hoenigl, Martin ^a   Krziwanek, Karina ^b   Feierl, Gebhard ^a   Masoud, Lilian ^a   Leitner, Eva ^a   Wagner Eibel, Ute ^a   Badura, Alexandra ^a   Marth, Egon ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; DiversiLab Microbial Typing System ; Genotyping; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA ST398; Pig; Repetitive sequence based PCR; Spa typing

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 73749085126     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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