Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Spanish hospital over a 4-year period: Clonal replacement, decreased antimicrobial resistance, and identification of community-acquired and livestock-associated clones

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 332-337

  Menegotto, Fabíola ^a   González Cabrero, Sandra ^a   Lorenzo, Belén ^a   Cubero, África ^a   Cuervo, Williams ^a   Gutiérrez, María Purificación ^a   Simarro, María ^a,b   Orduña, Antonio ^a,b   Bratos, Miguel Ángel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Molecular epidemiology; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA MICROARRAY; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SPAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84869080323     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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