LA-MRSA CC398 differ from classical community acquired-MRSA and hospital acquired-MRSA lineages: Functional analysis of infection and colonization processes

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 304, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 777-786

  Ballhausen, Britta ^a   Jung, Philipp ^b   Kriegeskorte, André ^a   Makgotlho, Phuti Edward ^c   Ruffing, Ulla ^b   von Müller, Lutz ^b   Köck, Robin ^a   Peters, Georg ^a   Herrmann, Mathias ^b   Ziebuhr, Wilma ^c   Becker, Karsten ^a   Bischoff, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clonal complex CC398; Host cell interaction; Human host; Livestock associated MRSA; S. aureus; Virulence

Indexed keywords

EXOTOXIN; FIBRONECTIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ADHESION FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL ADHESION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FNBB GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE EVASION; INTERNALIZATION; LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATED METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CC398; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; QUORUM SENSING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECTROSCOPY; STOP CODON; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWINE DISEASE; VETERINARY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROTEIN BINDING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84927692175     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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