A timescale for evolution, population expansion, and spatial spread of an emerging clone of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Nübel, Ulrich ^a   Dordel, Janina ^a   Kurt, Kevin ^a   Strommenger, Birgit ^a   Westh, Henrik ^b   Shukla, Sanjay K ^c   Žemličková, Helena ^d   Leblois, Raphaël ^e   Wirth, Thierry ^e   Jombart, Thibaut ^f   Balloux, François ^f   Witte, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLONING; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; EUROPE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; GENETICS, POPULATION; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME;

EID: 77954065669     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000855     Document Type: Article

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