First isolation of SCCmec IV- and Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive, sequence type 8, community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Israel

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3827-3828

  Glikman, Daniel ^a   Davidson, Sima ^b   Kudinsky, Raya ^a   Geffen, Yuval ^b   Sprecher, Hanna ^b  

^a WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77957777664     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00746-10     Document Type: Letter

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