Carriage of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a cohort of infants in southern Israel: Risk factors and molecular features

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 531-538

  Adler, Amos ^a   Givon Lavi, Noga ^b   Moses, Allon E ^a   Block, Colin ^a   Dagan, Ron ^b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; INFANT; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASETTE CHROMOSOME MEC GENE; WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NASAL MUCOSA; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; WOUND INFECTION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 75749107435     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02290-08     Document Type: Article

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