Staphylococcal disease in Africa: Another neglected 'tropical' disease

Future Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-26

  Herrmann, Mathias ^a   Abdullah, Salim ^b   Alabi, Abraham ^c   Alonso, Pedro ^d,e   Friedrich, Alexander W ^f   Fuhr, Günther ^g   Germann, Anja ^g   Kern, Winfried V ^h   Kremsner, Peter G ^c,i   Mandomando, Inacio ^e,j   Mellmann, Alexander C ^k   Pluschke, Gerd ^l   Rieg, Siegbert ^h   Ruffing, Ulla ^a   Schaumburg, Frieder ^c,m   Tanner, Marcel ^l   Peters, Georg ^m   Von Briesen, Hagen ^g   Von Eiff, Christof ^m   Von Müller, Lutz ^a   Grobusch, Martin P ^c,i,n   more..

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e Manhica Health Research Center   (Mozambique)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^j INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^k UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

Africa; MRSA; Panton Valentine leukocidin; pathogenicity; resistance; StaphNet; Staphylococcus aureus; strain repository

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AFRICA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GERMANY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRAINING; TROPICAL DISEASE;

AFRICA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NEGLECTED DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

BACILLI (CLASS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84871419081     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.12.126     Document Type: Review

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