Usefulness of double locus sequence typing (DLST) for regional and international epidemiological surveillance of methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1289-1296

  Basset, P ^a   Senn, L ^a   Prod'hom, G ^a   Bille, J ^a   Francioli, P ^a   Zanetti, G ^a   Blanc, D S ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ClfB; Molecular typing; MRSA; Sequence typing; spa; Staphylococcus aureaus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77955137283     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03070.x     Document Type: Article

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