Structural variations of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IVa in Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 8 and unrelated lineages

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3932-3935

  Damborg, Peter ^a   Bartels, Mette Damkjær ^b   Boye, Kit ^b   Guardabassi, Luca ^a   Westh, Henrik ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEC GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; ORFX GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPA GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NURSING HOMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 79960311048     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00012-11     Document Type: Article

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