Virulence gene profiling and molecular characterization of hospital-acquired Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with bloodstream infection

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 363-368

  Yu, Fangyou ^a   Li, Tingjian ^a   Huang, Xiaoying ^a   Xie, Juan ^a   Xu, Yuanyuan ^a   Tu, Jinjing ^a   Qin, Zhiqiang ^b,d   Parsons, Chris ^b,d   Wang, Jinwei ^b   Hu, Longhua ^c   Wang, Liangxing ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LISHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infection; Molecular characterization; Staphylococcus aureus; Virulence gene

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLF GENE; CNA GENE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HLA GENE; HLB GENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; ICAA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SDRC GENE; SDRD GENE; SDRE GENE; SEA GENE; SEG GENE; SEI GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHINA; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84869083249     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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