Persistent staphylococcus aureus colonization is not a strongly heritable trait in Amish families

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Roghmann, Mary Claire ^a,b   Johnson, J Kristie ^a   Stine, O Colin ^a   Lydecker, Alison D ^a   Ryan, Kathleen A ^a   Mitchell, Braxton D ^a   Shuldiner, Alan R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMISH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79952253859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017368     Document Type: Article

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