Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST80-IV clone in children from Jordan

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-230

  Khalil, Wissam ^a   Hashwa, Fuad ^a   Shihabi, Asem ^b   Tokajian, Sima ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Molecular typing; MRSA; MSSA; ST80 MRSA IV; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CELL CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES CULTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCCMEC GENE; SPA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; JORDAN; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A;

EID: 84862175869     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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