Clonality and antimicrobial susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland between 2012 and 2014

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Seidl, Kati ^a   Leimer, Nadja ^a   Palheiros Marques, Miguel ^a   Furrer, Alexandra ^a   Holzmann Bürgel, Anne ^a   Senn, Gabriela ^a   Zbinden, Reinhard ^b   Zinkernagel, Annelies S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibiotic susceptibility; Epidemiology; Molecular typing; MRSA

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; DISK DIFFUSION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWITZERLAND; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84925268775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12941-015-0075-3     Document Type: Article

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