Associations between dru Types and SCCmec Cassettes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Bartels, Mette D ^a   Boye, Kit ^a   Oliveira, Duarte C ^c,d   Worning, Peder ^a   Goering, Richard ^e   Westh, Henrik ^a,b  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^e CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT REPEAT UNIT; GENE CASSETTE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE I; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE II; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE III; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE IV; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE V; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC TYPE VI; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME;

IVA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876736047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061860     Document Type: Article

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