Characteristics related to antimicrobial resistance and biofilm formation of widespread methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis ST2 and ST23 lineages in Rio de Janeiro hospitals, Brazil

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-40

  Iorio, Natalia Lopes Pontes ^a,b   Caboclo, Roberta Ferreira ^a   Azevedo, Milena Borgo ^a   Barcellos, Ariane Guimares ^a   Neves, Felipe Piedade Gonalves ^b   Domingues, Regina Maria Cavalcanti Pilotto ^a   Dos Santos, Ktia Regina Netto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biofilm formation genes; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis; MLST; PFGE; SCCmec

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENOTYPE; ICAAB GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; BRAZIL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 83055177017     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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