A typical hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus clone is widespread in the community in the Gaza strip

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Biber, Asaf ^a,b   Abuelaish, Izeldeen ^c   Rahav, Galia ^a   Raz, Meir ^d   Cohen, Liran ^a,b   Valinsky, Lea ^e   Taran, Dianna ^d   Goral, Aviva ^a,b   Elhamdany, Abedalla ^f   Regev Yochay, Gili ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^f Keystone Consulting Services   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MEC GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PALESTINE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN GENE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCCMEC GENE; SPA GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARRIER STATE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865065335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042864     Document Type: Article

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