Genotypes, superantigen gene profiles, and presence of exfoliative toxin genes in clinical methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 222-224

  van Trijp, Marijke J C A ^a,b   Melles, Damian C ^b   Snijders, Susan V ^b   Wertheim, Heiman F L ^b   Verbrugh, Henri A ^b   van Belkum, Alex ^b   van Wamel, Willem J ^b  

^a Maasstad Hospital Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Clonal complexes; Staphylococcus aureus; Superantigen genes

Indexed keywords

EXFOLIATIN; EXFOLIATIN A; EXFOLIATIN D; METICILLIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; SUPERANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXFOLIATINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 73749087958     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.08.021     Document Type: Article

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