High prevalence of the arginine catabolic mobile element in carriage isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-36

  Barbier, François ^a,b   Lebeaux, David ^b   Hernandez, David ^c   Delannoy, Anne Sophie ^d   Caro, Valérie ^d   François, Patrice ^c   Schrenzel, Jacques ^c   Ruppé, Etienne ^a,b   Gaillard, Kevin ^a   Wolff, Michel ^a,b   Brisse, Sylvain ^d   Andremont, Antoine ^a,b   Ruimy, Raymond ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Cassette chromosome recombinase; Ccr; Community acquired methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus; Eburst; Horizontal transfer; Multilocus sequence typing (MLST); Orfx; USA300

Indexed keywords

ALLOTYPE; ARCA GENE; ARGININE CATABOLIC MOBILE ELEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPP3AB GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OUTPATIENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 78650338173     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq410     Document Type: Article

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