Evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus towards increasing resistance

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 616-622

  Strommenger, Birgit ^a   Bartels, Mette Damkjær ^b   Kurt, Kevin ^a   Layer, Franziska ^a   Rohde, Susanne Mie ^b   Boye, Kit ^b   Westh, Henrik ^b,c   Witte, Wolfgang ^a   De Lencastre, Herminia ^d,e   Nübel, Ulrich ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acquisition of resistance; Mobile genetic elements; MRSA; Phylogeny; Plasmids

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84894047702     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt413     Document Type: Article

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