National surveillance reveals findings of Panton-Valentine leukocidin positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Serbia

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART 2, 2013, Pages 342-344

  Ćirković, Ivana ^a   Sørum, Marit ^b   Radenković, Dejan ^a   Vlahović, Milena Švabić ^a   Larsen, Anders Rhod ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; NITROFURANTOIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERBIA;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SERBIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84872730550     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.051219-0     Document Type: Article

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