Novel and uncommon antimicrobial resistance genes in livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 745-755

  Kadlec, K ^a   Fessler A T ^a   Hauschild, T ^a   Schwarz, S ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Integration; MRSA; Plasmid; Recombination; Transposon

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; APRAMYCIN; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DALFOPRISTIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; MONOBACTAM; NEOMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PLEUROMUTILIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; STREPTOTHRICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DRUG DETERMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84864065681     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03842.x     Document Type: Review

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