Enhanced discrimination of highly clonal ST22-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus IV isolates achieved by combining spa, dru, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing data

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1839-1852

  Shore, Anna C ^a   Rossney, Angela S ^b   Kinnevey, Peter M ^a   Brennan, Orla M ^a   Creamer, Eilish ^c   Sherlock, Orla ^c   Dolan, Anthony ^c   Cunney, Robert ^d   Sullivan, Derek J ^a   Goering, Richard V ^e   Humphreys, Hilary ^c   Coleman, David C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^e CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRELAND; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77951776762     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02155-09     Document Type: Article

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