Linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain 1128105, the first known clinical isolate possessing the cfr multidrug resistance gene

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6592-6598

  Locke, Jeffrey B ^a   Zuill, Douglas E ^a   Scharn, Caitlyn R ^c   Deane, Jennifer ^b   Sahm, Daniel F ^b   Denys, Gerald A ^d   Goering, Richard V ^c   Shawa, Karen J ^a  

^a Trius Therapeutics Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BACTERIAL RNA; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DORNASE ALFA; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; LINEZOLID; NOVOBIOCIN; OXACILLIN; RNA 23S; SALBUTAMOL; TIAMULIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CFR PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CFR GENE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ACETAMIDES; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEFTAZIDIME; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, MDR; HUMANS; LINEZOLID; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OXAZOLIDINONES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TOBRAMYCIN;

EID: 84908275735     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.03493-14     Document Type: Article

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