Genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus strains among healthcare workers and patients in the tertiary referral Children's Medical Hospital in Tehran, Iran

British Journal of Biomedical Science

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 173-177

  Mamishi, S ^a   Mahmoudi, S ^a   Sadeghi, R H ^a   Movahedi, Z ^b   Hadipour, R ^a   Pourakbari, Babak ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b QOM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genotyping techniques; Healthcare workers; Nasal carriage; Patients; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN; PENICILLIN K;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLONE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NURSE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; CROSS INFECTION; GENETICS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; IRAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; STATISTICS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROLOGY; OFFICE WORKER; ONCOLOGY WARD; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SURGICAL WARD; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UROLOGY; WOUND;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; IRAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873144588     PISSN: 09674845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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