Molecular picture of community- and healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus circulating in a teaching hospital in Milan

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 873-878

  Borghi, Elisa ^a   Cainarca, Marinella ^b   Sciota, Rita ^a   Biassoni, Caterina ^a   Morace, Giulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; ITALY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78549288571     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2010.508465     Document Type: Article

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