Nasal carriage of methicillin resistant staphylococci

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 108-117

  Faria, Nuno A ^a,b   Conceição, Teresa ^a,b   Miragaia, Maria ^a   Bartels, Mette Damkjær ^b   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,c   Westh, Henrik ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE SMEAR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CHROMOSOME CASSETTE MEC SCC MEC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PASTEURI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DENMARK; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS;

EID: 84896903362     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2013.0197     Document Type: Article

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