Methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci in the community: High homology of SCCmec IVa between Staphylococcus epidermidis and major clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 270-281

  Barbier, François ^a,b,c,h   Ruppé, Etienne ^a,b   Hernandez, David ^f   Lebeaux, David ^a,b   Francois, Patrice ^f   Felix, Benjamin ^e   Desprez, Adeline ^a,b   Maiga, Aminata ^b,g   Woerther, Paul Louis ^a,b   Gaillard, Kevin ^a   Jeanrot, Cécile ^d   Wolff, Michel ^b,c   Schrenzel, Jacques ^f   Andremont, Antoine ^a,b   Ruimy, Raymond ^a,b  

^a National Reference Center for Emergence of Resistance in Commensal Flora   (France)

^b EA 3964   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^d BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^e U d'Ecologie Physiol Syst D   (France)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^g Point G Hospital   (Mali)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COAGULASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ALLOTYPE; PRIMER DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CELL CLONE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; COAGULASE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ALLOTYPES; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 77954578688     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653483     Document Type: Article

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