Genetic variation in spatio-temporal confined USA300 community-associated MRSA isolates: A shift from clonal dispersion to genetic evolution?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Carpaij, Neeltje ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^a   Rice, Thomas W ^b   Weinstein, Robert A ^c   Hinds, Jason ^d   Witney, Adam A ^d   Lindsay, Jodi A ^d   Bonten, Marc J M ^a   Fluit, Ad C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE PROTEIN; DNA REPAIR PROTEIN; EXPORTED PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RESOLVASE; SERINE PROTEINASE LIKE C PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE LIKE E PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ASSOCIATED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; UNITED STATES; CELL CLONE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CLONE CELLS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951523859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016419     Document Type: Article

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