The dominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone from hospitals in Cape Town has an unusual genotype: ST612

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 785-792

  Jansen van Rensburg, M J ^a   Eliya Madikane, V ^a   Whitelaw, A ^a   Chachage, M ^a   Haffejee, S ^a   Gay Elisha, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MLST; SCCmec; ST612

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79955429026     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03373.x     Document Type: Article

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