Population structure analyses of Staphylococcus aureus at Tygerberg Hospital, South Africa, reveals a diverse population, a high prevalence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes, and unique local methicillin-resistant S. aureus clones

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 652-659

  Oosthuysen, W F ^a   Orth, H ^a   Lombard, C J ^b   Sinha, B ^c   Wasserman, E ^a,d  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Pathcare Laboratory   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistance; PVL; S. aureus; SCC mec; South Africa

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE INFECTION; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEROPREVALENCE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOUTH AFRICA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; SOUTH AFRICA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905037283     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12452     Document Type: Article

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