Transferable vancomycin resistance in a community-associated MRSA lineage

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1524-1531

  Rossi, Flávia ^a   Diaz, Lorena ^b,e   Wollam, Aye ^g   Panesso, Diana ^b,e   Zhou, Yanjiao ^g   Rincon, Sandra ^b   Narechania, Apurva ^h   Xing, Galen ^h   Di Gioia, Thais S R ^a   Doi, André ^a   Tran, Truc T ^e,f   Reyes, Jinnethe ^b,e   Munita, Jose M ^d,e   Carvajal, Lina P ^b   Hernandez Roldan, Alejandra ^c,e   Brandão, Denise ^a   Van Der Heijden, Inneke Marie ^a   Murray, Barbara E ^e   Planet, Paul J ^h   Weinstock, George M ^g   Arias, Cesar A ^b,e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^c CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFEPIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIFAMOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GEMCITABINE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; NAVELBINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POLYMYXIN B; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CELLULITIS; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; FEVER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REPLICATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; NONHUMAN; ORAL MUCOSAL DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BRAZIL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84898636251     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1303359     Document Type: Article

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