Unexpected diversity of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3628-3634

  Liu, Ying ^a   Kong, Fanrong ^b   Xiao, Meng ^c   Wang, Qinning ^b   O'Sullivan, Matthew ^b,d   Sintchenko, Vitali ^b,d   Ma, Lin ^a   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^b,d  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77957785846     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00351-10     Document Type: Article

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