Carriage of an ACME II variant may have contributed to methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 239-like strain replacement in Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3380-3383

  Espedido, B A ^a,b   Steen, J A ^c,d   Barbagiannakos, T ^e   Mercer, J ^e   Paterson, D L ^e   Grimmond, S M ^c,d   Cooper, M A ^d   Gosbell, I B ^a,b,e   Van Hal, S J ^a,e   Jensen, S O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INGHAM INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Sydney South West Pathology Service Liverpool ^*  (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALLOTYPE; ARGININE CATABOLIC MOBILE ELEMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HOSPITALS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84861141844     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00013-12     Document Type: Article

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