Characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. isolated from US West Coast public marine beaches

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Soge, Olusegun O ^a   Meschke, John S ^a   No, David B ^a   Roberts, Marilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

MLST; MRCoNS; MRSA; Recreational environment; SCCmec

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COAGULASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; PROTEIN ERM(A); PROTEIN TET(M); RNA 16S; SEA WATER; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CASSETTE; INTERTIDAL ZONE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SAND; SEASHORE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SWIMMING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BATHING BEACHES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COAGULASE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 76249117471     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp368     Document Type: Article

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