Mutations in agr do not persist in natural populations of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1593-1599

  Shopsin, Bo ^a   Eaton, Christian ^a   Wasserman, Gregory A ^a   Mathema, Barun ^b   Adhikari, Rajan P ^a   Agolory, Simon ^a   Altman, Deena R ^a   Holzman, Robert S ^a   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^b   Novick, Richard P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGR GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLONE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS INFECTION; GENE FREQUENCY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; NEW YORK CITY; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78349265764     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656915     Document Type: Article

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