Diversity of SCCmec elements in Staphylococci isolated from public washrooms

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mkrtchyan, Hermine V ^a   Xu, Zhen ^a   Cutler, Ronald R ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Biomedical Science Degree Programmes Pre Clinical Drug Discovery Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EMRSA 15; Environmental isolates; Staphylococcal species

Indexed keywords

OXACILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ARLETTAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CONDIMENITI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EQUORUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCCMEC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCCMEC TYPE I; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCCMEC TYPE IV; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCCMEC TYPE VI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SANITATION;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OXACILLIN; PUBLIC FACILITIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TOILET FACILITIES;

EID: 84931270207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0451-3     Document Type: Article

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