Molecular analysis of community-acquired methicillin-susceptible and resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from bacteraemic and osteomyelitis infections in children from Tunisia

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1020-1026

  Kechrid, A ^a   Perez Vazquez M ^b   Smaoui, H ^a   Hariga, D ^a   Rodriguez Banos M ^c   Vindel, A ^b   Baquero, F ^c   Canton R ^c   del Campo, R ^c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Clinical evolution; Multilocus sequence typing; Osteomyelitis; pvl; spa typing

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PRISTINAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; OSTEOMYELITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TUNISIA;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79959925262     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03367.x     Document Type: Article

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