Characterization of SCCmec types and antibacterial susceptibility patterns of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in southern Iran

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-33

  Japoni, Aziz ^a   Jamalidoust, Marzieh ^a   Farshad, Shohrah ^a   Ziyaeyan, Mazyar ^a   Alborzi, Abdolvahab ^a   Japoni, Sara ^a   Rafaatpour, Norradin ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; IRAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SCCMEC GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IRAN; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 79551588385     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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