The CEM-NET initiative: Molecular biology and epidemiology in alliance - Tracking antibiotic-resistant staphylococci and pneumococci in hospitals and in the community

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 301, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 623-629

  de Lencastre, Herminia ^a,b   Tomasz, Alexander ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEM NET; Epidemiology; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CLONE; DAY CARE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POINT MUTATION; PORTUGAL; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80555149334     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2011.09.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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