Dry collection and culture methods for recovery of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from indoor home environments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2474-2476

  Davis, Meghan F ^a   Baron, Patrick ^a   Price, Lance B ^b   Williams, D'Ann L ^a   Jeyaseelan, Selvi ^c   Hambleton, Ian R ^c   Diette, Gregory B ^d   Breysse, Patrick N ^a   McCormack, Meredith C ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; METICILLIN;

ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BARBADOS; CHILD; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; DUST; EVALUATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TEXTILE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BARBADOS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DUST; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEXTILES;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84861155039     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06886-11     Document Type: Note

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