Antibiotic resistance and molecular characterization of clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bacteremic patients in oncohematology

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 122-130

  Bouchami, O ^a   Achour, W ^a   Mekni, M A ^a   Rolo, J ^b   Hassen, A Ben ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CCCGGG SPECIFIC TYPE II DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; CCCGGG-SPECIFIC TYPE II DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; COAGULASE; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TUNISIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COAGULASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; TUNISIA;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

EID: 79958102877     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-011-0017-1     Document Type: Article

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