Outbreak of skin infections in college football team members due to an unusual strain of community-acquired methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 609-611

  Fontanilla, Jose Mario ^a   Kirkland, Kathryn B ^a   Talbot, Elizabeth A ^a   Powell, Kenton E ^a   Schwartzman, Joseph D ^a   Goering, Richard V ^b   Parsonnet, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; EPIDEMIC; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; USA300 STRAIN;

ATHLETES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STUDENTS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 75649117441     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02297-09     Document Type: Article

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