Origin and evolution of European community-acquired methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Stegger, Marc ^a,b   Wirth, Thierry ^c,d   Andersen, Paal S ^a,b   Skov, Robert L ^a   De Grassi, Anna ^c,s   Simões, Patricia Martins ^e,f   Tristan, Anne ^e,f   Petersen, Andreas ^a   Aziz, Maliha ^b,g   Kiil, Kristoffer ^a   Cirković, Ivana ^h   Udo, Edet E ⁱ   del Campo, Rosa ^j   Vuopio Varkila, Jaana ^k   Ahmad, Norazah ^l   Tokajian, Sima ^m   Peters, Georg ⁿ   Schaumburg, Frieder ⁿ   Olsson Liljequist, Barbro ^o   Givskov, Michael ^p   Driebe, Elizabeth E ^b   Vigh, Henrik E ^p   Shittu, Adebayo ^q   Ramdani Bougessa, Nadjia ^r   Rasigade, Jean Philippe ^e,f   Price, Lance B ^b,g   Vandenesch, Francois ^e,f   Larsen, Anders R ^a   Laurent, Frederic ^e,f   more..

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFECTIOLOGIE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^g GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

ⁱ KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^j HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^k NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^l INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^m LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^o SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^p UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^q OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^r CHU Mustapha   (Algeria)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSIDIC ACID; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; AGRC PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRC GENE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SCCMEC GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TET(K) GENE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; AFRICA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84908461725     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01044-14     Document Type: Article

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