High prevalence of toxic shock syndrome toxin–producing epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 15 (EMRSA-15) strains in Kuwait hospitals

High prevalence of toxic shock syndrome toxin–producing epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 15 (EMRSA-15) strains in Kuwait hospitals

This study characterized EMRSA-15 isolates obtained from patients in Kuwait hospitals for their genotypic relatedness, antibiotic resistance and carriage of virulence genes using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), coagulase serotyping, SCCmec subtyping, spa typing, multilocus sequence typing a...

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Main Authors: E.E. Udo, S.S. Boswihi, N. Al-Sweih
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-07-01
Series:New Microbes and New Infections
Subjects:
DNA microarray
EMRSA-15
MLST
MRSA
SCCmec typing
spa typing
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297516300075

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