Emergence of SCCmec type IV and SCCmec type V methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus containing the Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes in a large academic teaching hospital in Central Switzerland: External invaders or persisting circulators?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 720-727

  Valsesia, Giorgia ^a,c   Rossi, Marco ^b   Bertschy, Sonja ^b   Pfyffer, Gaby E ^a  

^a Luzerner Kantonsspital   (Switzerland)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE IV; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE V; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWITZERLAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77749342790     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01890-09     Document Type: Article

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