Potential associations between severity of infection and the presence of virulence-associated genes in clinical strains of staphylococcus aureus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Gill, Steven R ^a,b,c   McIntyre, Lauren M ^d   Nelson, Charlotte L ^e   Remortel, Brian ^f,g   Rude, Tom ^e   Reller, L Barth ^e   Fowler Jr , Vance G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; CELL CLONE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIRULENCE;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CLONE CELLS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79955580328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018673     Document Type: Article

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