Molecular characteristics of community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from Chinese children

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 356-362

  Geng, Wenjing ^a   Yang, Yonghong ^a   Wu, Dejing ^a   Huang, Guoying ^b   Wang, Chuanqing ^b   Deng, Li ^c   Zheng, Yuejie ^d   Fu, Zhou ^e   Li, Changcong ^f   Shang, Yunxiao ^g   Zhao, Changan ^h   Yu, Sangjie ^a   Shen, Xuzhuang ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Children's Hospital of Guangzhou   (China)

^d SHENZHEN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^e Chongqing Children's Hospital   (China)

^f WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Shenyang Shengjing Hospital   (China)

^h Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Children; Community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Multilocus sequence typing; SCCmec; Spa typing

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHINESE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 77949372594     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2009.00648.x     Document Type: Article

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