Staphylococcus epidermidis colonization is highly clonal across US cardiac centers

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1391-1398

  Gordon, Rachel J ^a   Miragaia, Maria ^d   Weinberg, Alan D ^e   Lee, Caroline J ^a   Rolo, Joana ^d   Giacalone, Julie C ^e   Slaughter, Mark S ^f   Pappas, Pat ^g   Naka, Yoshifumi ^b   Tector, Alfred J ^h   De Lencastre, Herminia ^d,i   Lowy, Franklin D ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^g ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE CASSETTE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEC GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861553004     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis218     Document Type: Article

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