Molecular characterization of a catalase-negative Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus strain collected from a patient with mitral valve endocarditis and pericarditis revealed a novel nonsense mutation in the katA gene

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3398-3402

  To, Kelvin K W ^a,b   Cheng, Vincent C C ^b   Chan, Jasper F W ^b   Wong, Amy C Y ^b   Chau, Sandy ^c   Tsang, Flora H F ^b   Curreem, Shirly O T ^a   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATINE KINASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MINOCYCLINE; TROPONIN; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE PAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CATALASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COLIC; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXSACKIE VIRUS B4; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HAND TREMOR; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KATA GENE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MOUTH ULCER; NECK PAIN; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINORRHEA; RNA GENE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CATALASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERICARDITIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS SUBSP. AUREUS;

EID: 80052202334     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00849-11     Document Type: Article

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