Characteristics of qacA/B-positive Staphylococcus aureus isolated from patients and a hospital environment in China

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 653-657

  Lu, Zhongyi ^a,b   Chen, Yong ^a   Chen, Wei ^b   Liu, Hui ^c   Song, Qing ^c   Hu, Xiaofeng ^a   Zou, Ziying ^d   Liu, Zhengxiang ^e   Duo, Libo ^f   Yang, Jiyong ^c   Gong, Yanwen ^g   Wang, Zhanke ^h   Wu, Xuqin ⁱ   Zhao, Jingya ^a   Zhang, Changjian ^a   Zhang, Mengqiang ^a   Han, Li ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^d CHENGDU MILITARY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^e Urumqi General Hospital of Lanzhou Military Command   (China)

^f THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g JINAN MILITARY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^h The 94th Hospital of PLA   (China)

ⁱ THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Chlorhexidine resistance; S. aureus; Toxin genes

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORHEXIDINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; RIFAMPICIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; QACA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; QACB PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL; IN VITRO STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; QACA B GENE; QACA B POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; CHLORHEXIDINE; CLINDAMYCIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 84928183034     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku456     Document Type: Article

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