Worldwide epidemiology and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 409, Issue , 2017, Pages 21-56

  Monaco, Monica ^a   Pimentel de Araujo, Fernanda ^a   Cruciani, Melania ^a   Coccia, Eliana M ^a   Pantosti, Annalisa ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPTOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 85041307636     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2016_3     Document Type: Chapter

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