Preadmission screening of adults highlights previously unrecognized carriage of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in London: A cause for concern?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3168-3171

  Pantelides, Nicholas M ^a,c   Gopal Rao, Guduru ^a   Charlett, Andre ^b   Kearns, Angela M ^b  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCIDINS; LONDON; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84866465023     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01066-12     Document Type: Article

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