Clinical and molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal intensive care unit in the decade following implementation of an active detection and isolation program

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2492-2501

  Nelson, Melissa U ^a,c   Bizzarro, Matthew J ^a   Baltimore, Robert S ^a,b   Dembry, Louise M ^a,b   Gallagher, Patrick G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXFOLIATIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

IVA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84938072061     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00470-15     Document Type: Article

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