Variations in spa types found in consecutive MRSA isolates from the same patients

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 314, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-105

  Boye, Kit ^a   Westh, Henrik ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clinical isolate; MRSA; spa type evolution

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPA GENE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 78650082357     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02151.x     Document Type: Letter

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