Recombinations in staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements compromise the molecular detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Hill Cawthorne, Grant A ^a,b   Hudson, Lyndsey O ^c   El Ghany, Moataz Fouad Abd ^a   Piepenburg, Olaf ^d   Nair, Mridul ^a   Dodgson, Andrew ^e   Forrest, Matthew S ^d   Clark, Taane G ^f   Pain, Arnab ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TWISTDX LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^e MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINASE POLYMERASE AMPLIFICATION; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84903397778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101419     Document Type: Article

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