High prevalence of EMRSA-15 in Portuguese public buses: A worrisome finding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Simões, Roméo Rocha ^a,b   Aires de Sousa, Marta ^c   Conceição, Teresa ^a   Antunes, Filipa ^b   da Costa, Paulo Martins ^b,d   de Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Escola Superior de Saude da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE CASSETTE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOTOR VEHICLE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; CELL CLONE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

IVA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CLONE CELLS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PANDEMICS; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 79952301476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017630     Document Type: Article

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