Single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping identifies a locally endemic clone of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Nübel, Ulrich ^a   Nitsche, Andreas ^a   Layer, Franziska ^a   Strommenger, Birgit ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLADISTICS; CLONE; DNA MACRORESTRICTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPA TYPING; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; GERMANY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TANDEM REPEAT;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

DEMOGRAPHY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84857952562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032698     Document Type: Article

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