Core genome conservation of Staphylococcus haemolyticus limits sequence based population structure analysis

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 159-166

  Cavanagh, Jorunn Pauline ^a   Klingenberg, Claus ^a,b   Hanssen, Anne Merethe ^a   Fredheim, Elizabeth Aarag ^a   Francois, Patrice ^c   Schrenzel, Jacques ^c   Flægstad, Trond ^a,b   Sollid, Johanna Ericson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; MLST; MLVF; PFGE; Staphylococcus haemolyticus; Typing methods

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84860371840     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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