Emergence of methicillin-resistant, vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus among patients associated with group A Streptococcal pharyngitis infection in southern India

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 383-389

  Gowrishankar, Shanmugaraj ^a   Thenmozhi, Ramalingam ^a   Balaji, Kannan ^a   Pandian, Shunmugiah Karutha ^a  

^a ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Multilocus sequence typing; Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; INDIA; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUC GENE; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; THROAT CULTURE; VANCOMYCIN INTERMEDIATE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COINFECTION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84873572368     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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