Detection of epidemic USA300 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains by use of a single allele-specific PCR assay targeting a novel polymorphism of Staphylococcus aureus pbp3

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2541-2550

  Chadwick, Sean G ^a   Prasad, Aditya ^a   Smith, W Lamar ^a   Mordechai, Eli ^a   Adelson, Martin E ^a   Gygax, Scott E ^a  

^a Medical Diagnostic Laboratories LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PBP3 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPA GENE;

ALLELES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84880614179     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00417-13     Document Type: Article

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