DNA microarray profiling of a diverse collection of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates assigns the majority to the correct sequence type and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type and results in the subsequent identification and characterization of novel SCCmec-SCCM1 composite islands

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5340-5355

  Shore, Anna C ^a,b   Brennan, Orla M ^a   Deasy, Emily C ^a   Rossney, Angela S ^b   Kinnevey, Peter M ^a   Ehricht, Ralf ^c   Monecke, Stefan ^c,d   Colemana, David C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c Alere Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSIDIC ACID; SUPERANTIGEN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; IMMUNE EVASION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FUSIDIC ACID; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 84866336077     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01247-12     Document Type: Article

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