Longitudinal genetic analyses of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage dynamics in a diverse population

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Muthukrishnan, Gowrishankar ^a   Lamers, Ryan P ^a,b   Ellis, Austin ^a   Paramanandam, Vanathy ^a   Persaud, Alana B ^a   Tafur, Sergio ^c   Parkinson, Christopher L ^c   Cole, Alexander M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial genetics; MRSA; Multi locus sequence typing; Nasal colonization; SCCmec typing; Spa typing; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CARRIER STATE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NASAL CAVITY; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84878666342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-221     Document Type: Article

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