Evaluation of the impact of direct plating, broth enrichment, and specimen source on recovery and diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates among HIV-infected outpatients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4126-4130

  McAllister, S K ^a   Albrecht, V S ^a   Fosheim, G E ^a   Lowery, H K ^b   Peters, P J ^a   Gorwitz, R ^a   Guest, J L ^b   Hageman, J ^a   Mindley, R ^b   McDougal, L K ^c   Rimland, D ^b   Limbago, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; MANNITOL; METICILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH ENRICHMENT METHOD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIRECT PLATING METHOD; GROIN SWAB; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEC GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; OUTPATIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; GENOTYPE; GROIN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NOSE; OUTPATIENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 82455201156     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05323-11     Document Type: Article

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