Frequency of disinfectant resistance genes in pediatric strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1326-1327

  Johnson, James G ^a   Saye, Elizabeth J ^a   Jimenez Truque, Natalia ^a   Soper, Nicole ^a   Thomsen, Isaac ^a   Talbot, Thomas R ^a   Creech, C Buddy ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; GENOMIC DNA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISINFECTANT RESISTANCE GENE; DRUG TOLERANCE; GENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM BACTERICIDAL CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLORHEXIDINE; DISINFECTANTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PLASMIDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84887593108     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673983     Document Type: Note

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