Recombination between ccrC genes in a type V (5C2&5) staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) of Staphylococcus aureus ST398 leads to conversion from methicillin resistance to methicillin susceptibility in vivo

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 783-791

  Chlebowicz, Monika A ^a   Nganou, Kristelle ^a   Kozytska, Svitlana ^b   Arends, Jan P ^a   Engelmann, Susanne ^c   Grundmann, Hajo ^a   Ohlsen, Knut ^b   Van Dijl, Jan Maarten ^a   Buist, Girbe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; C2B MEC GENE; CCRC1 GENE; CHROMOSOME; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HSDR GENE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORFX GENE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC GENE; UMBILICUS INFECTION;

EID: 75749118882     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00696-09     Document Type: Article

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