Diversity of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements in predominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in a small geographic area

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4589-4595

  Basset, Patrick ^a   Senn, Laurence ^a   Vogel, Valérie ^a   Zanetti, Giorgio ^a   Blanc, Dominique S ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; DOUBLE LOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWITZERLAND; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 78049285318     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00470-10     Document Type: Article

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