Genetic diagnosis of community-acquired MRSA: A multiplex real-time PCR method for staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec typing and detecting toxin genes

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-170

  Motoshima, Maiko ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Morinaga, Yoshitomo ^a   Matsuda, Junichi ^a   Sugahara, Kazuyuki ^a   Yamada, Yasuaki ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a   Kamihira, Shimeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

CA MRSA; Pathogenicity; Rapid typing; Real time PCR; SCCmec type

Indexed keywords

ENCODED ENTEROTOXIN TYPE C; ENTEROTOXIN; EXFOLIATIN; EXFOLIATIVE TOXIN TYPE B; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; ENTEROTOXINS; EXFOLIATINS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUPERANTIGENS; SUPPURATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77949479317     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.220.165     Document Type: Article

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