Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from a fatal case of necrotizing fasciitis in an extremely low-birth-weight infant

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 289-292

  Orii, K O ^a   Iwao, Y ^b   Higuchi, W ^b   Takano, T ^b   Yamamoto, T ^b  

^a GIFU PREFECTURAL GIFU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extremely low birth weight infant; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Necrotizing fasciitis; Panton Valentine leukocidin; Staphylococcal enterotoxin

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; GABEXATE MESILATE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; PANIPENEM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; VANCOMYCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGURIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NECROSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 76749151501     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02806.x     Document Type: Article

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