Anatomic sites of colonization with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1192-1194

  Popovich, Kyle J ^a,b   Aroutcheva, Alla ^a,b   Hota, Bala ^a,b   Beavis, Kathleen G ^c   Hayden, Mary K ^a   Weinstein, Robert A ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BODY REGIONS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; EXTRANASAL COLONIZATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL COLONIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERIRECTAL AREA; PERIRECTAL COLONIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QACA GENE; QACB GENE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE CAVITY; PHARYNX; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; GENETIC MARKER; QACA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; QACB PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NASAL CAVITY; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84905963786     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677627     Document Type: Note

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