Report of the 13th vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate from the United States

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 998-1002

  Limbago, Brandi M ^a   Kallen, Alexander J ^a   Zhu, Wenming ^a   Eggers, Paula ^b   McDougal, Linda K ^a   Albrecht, Valerie S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Delaware Division of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC WOUND; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FOOT INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND CARE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84896712720     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02187-13     Document Type: Article

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