Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant and -susceptible staphylococcus aureus in Luanda, Angola: First description of the spread of the MRSA ST5-IVa clone in the African continent

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 441-449

  Conceição, Teresa ^a   Coelho, Céline ^a   Santos Silva, Isabel ^b   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,c   Aires De Sousa, Marta ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b Portuguese Red Cross Higher Health School   (Portugal)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AFRICA; ANGOLA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; DISEASE CARRIER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL CLONE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGOLA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLONE CELLS; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84905058469     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2014.0007     Document Type: Article

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