Transmission of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus between human and hamster

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1679-1680

  Ferreira, Jorge Pinto ^a,b   Fowler Jr , Vance G ^b   Correa, Maria T ^a   Lyman, Roberta ^a   Ruffin, Felicia ^b   Anderson, Kevin L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISK DIFFUSION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ETHMOIDECTOMY; FEMALE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HAMSTER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RHINORRHEA; RHINOSINUSITIS; THERMONUCLEASE GENE; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CRICETINAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NASAL MUCOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; RODENT DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79953869918     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02469-10     Document Type: Article

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