The connection between agr and SCCmec elements of staphylococcus aureus strains and their response to photodynamic inactivation

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 413-419

  Grinholc, Mariusz ^a   Richter, Magdalena ^a   Nakonieczna, Joanna ^a   Fila, Grzegorz ^a   Bielawski, Krzysztof P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY FORMING UNITS; GENETIC ELEMENTS; GENETIC FACTORS; HUMAN PATHOGENS; METHICILLIN; MULTIPLEX PCR; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION; PHOTODYNAMIC INACTIVATION; PHOTOINACTIVATION; PROTOPORPHYRINS; RED LIGHT; S. AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN RESPONSE; VIRULENCE GENE;

BACTERIA; PHOTOSENSITIZERS;

GENES;

AGR PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MECA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PROTOPORPHYRIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; LIGHT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATHOGENICITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; LIGHT; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROTOPORPHYRINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 79958742578     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2010.2854     Document Type: Article

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