Molecular characteristics of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Hokkaido, northern main island of Japan: Identification of sequence types 6 and 59 panton-valentine leucocidin-positive community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-250

  Kawaguchiya, Mitsuyo ^a   Urushibara, Noriko ^a   Kuwahara, Osamu ^b   Ito, Masahiko ^b   Mise, Keiji ^a   Kobayashi, Nobumichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Mental Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; COAGULASE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BODY FLUIDS; COAGULASE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; JAPAN; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ARCA; IVA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79957667034     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2010.0136     Document Type: Article

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