Surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Torino (northwest Italy)

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 250-257

  Crivellaro, Sabrina ^a   Leone, Ilaria ^a   Bianco, Ornella ^b   Savoia, Dianella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b SAN LUIGI GONZAGA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capsular polysaccharide; MecA types; Methicillin resistance; Panton Valentine leukocidin; PFGE; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CIPROFLOXACIN; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; EXOTOXINS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; ITALY; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGES;

EID: 79951924739     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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