Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus protein A (spa) mutants in the community and hospitals in Oxfordshire

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Votintseva, Antonina A ^a   Fung, Rowena ^a,c   Miller, Ruth R ^a,d   Knox, Kyle ^h   Godwin, Heather ^b,g   Wyllie, David H ^a,e   Bowden, Rory ^f   Crook, Derrick W ^a,b   Walker, A Sarah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community and hospital strains; Deletions; Non typeable isolates; Spa gene; Spa typing; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MUTANT PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; COMMUNITY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUTATION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84898401504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-63     Document Type: Article

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