Characterization of a cfr-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis strain of the lineage ST22 implicated in a life-threatening human infection

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 380-382

  Lozano, Carmen ^a   Ruiz García, Montserrat ^b   Gómez Sanz, Elena ^a   López García, Pilar ^b   Royo García, Gloria ^b   Zarazaga, Myriam ^a   Torres, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cfr; FexA; Linezolid resistance; MRSE; ST22

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

AAC(6') APH(2'') GENE; AAC(6') GENE; ADULT; ANT(4') IA GENE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APH(3') IIIA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DFRD GENE; DFRG GENE; DFRK GENE; DFRS1 GENE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FEXA GENE; FUSB GENE; FUSC GENE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; INU A GENE; INU B GENE; INU C GENE; INU D GENE; ISA B GENE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREATITIS; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VGA A GENE; VGA B GENE; VGA C GENE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84863777606     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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