On the shifting balance: The case of Staphylococcus aureus CC398

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Baquero, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENOTYPE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOONOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84860531764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00078-12     Document Type: Note

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