Epidemiology and molecular characteristics of community-associated methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus from skin/soft tissue infections in a children's hospital in Beijing, China

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Wu, Dejing ^a   Wang, Qun ^b   Yang, Yonghong ^a   Geng, Wenjing ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Yu, Sangjie ^a   Yao, Kaihu ^a   Yuan, Lin ^a   Shen, Xuzhuang ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUILIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BURP; Community acquired; MRSA; MSSA; Skin and soft tissue infections; Spa; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

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

ADOLESCENT; AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHINA; CLONE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77951499334     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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