Analysis of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec in Staphylococcus haemolyticus and Staphylococcus sciuri: Identification of a novel ccr gene complex with a newly identified ccrA allotype (ccrA7)

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-297

  Urushibara, Noriko ^a   Paul, Shyamal Kumar ^b   Hossain, Mohammad Akram ^b   Kawaguchiya, Mitsuyo ^a   Kobayashi, Nobumichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MYMENSINGH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXACILLIN;

ALLOTYPE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BANGLADESH; BETA-LACTAMASES; BODY FLUIDS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

EID: 79957639689     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2010.0144     Document Type: Article

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