Staphylococcus aureus mutants lacking cell wall-bound protein A found in isolates from bacteraemia, MRSA infection and a healthy nasal carrier

Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-24

  Sørum, Marit ^a   Sangvik, Maria ^b   Stegger, Marc ^a   Olsen, Renate S ^b   Johannessen, Mona ^b   Skov, Robert ^a   Sollid, Johanna U E ^b  

^a Staphylococcus Laboratory   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deviating spa repeat length; Non typeable spa; Staphylococcal protein A mutants

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CELL WALL; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOP CODON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTEREMIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER STATE; CELL WALL; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HUMANS; NASAL MUCOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84878159495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2049632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2049-632X.12017     Document Type: Article

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