Isolation of mecC MRSA in Australia

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2348-2349

  Worthing, Kate A ^a   Coombs, Geoffrey W ^b,c   Pang, Stanley ^b,c   Abraham, Sam ^b   Saputra, Sugiyono ^d   Trott, Darren J ^d   Jordan, David ^b,e   Wong, Hui San ^d   Abraham, Rebecca J ^b,c   Norris, Jacqueline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENROFLOXACIN; MARBOFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PRADOFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MECA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MECC GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CAT; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84982207532     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw138     Document Type: Letter

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