Novel pseudo-staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec element (ΨSCCmec57395) in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius CC45

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5509-5515

  Perreten, Vincent ^a   Chanchaithong, Pattrarat ^a,b   Prapasarakul, Nuvee ^b   Rossano, Alexandra ^a   Blum, Shlomo E ^c   Elad, Daniel ^c   Schwendener, Sybille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; STREPTOTHRICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISRAEL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS PSEUDINTERMEDIUS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PSEUDINTERMEDIUS; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONE CELLS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; ISRAEL; METALS, HEAVY; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THAILAND;

EID: 84885917971     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00738-13     Document Type: Article

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