Extensive Dissemination of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) between the Hospital and the Community in a Country with a High Prevalence of Nosocomial MRSA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Espadinha, Diana ^a   Faria, Nuno A ^a   Miragaia, Maria ^a   Lito, Luís Marques ^b   Melo Cristino, José ^b,c   de Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,d   Network, Médicos Sentinela ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCA GENE; ARGININE CATABOLIC MOBILE ELEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CCRAB1 GENE; CCRC GENE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE STRUCTURE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PORTUGAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PVL GENE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84875742242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059960     Document Type: Article

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