Article
[Clonal diffusion and evolution of mecA and Tn554 polymorphisms in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Italy].
Le infezioni in medicina - 1 Mar 2001
Campanile F, Cafiso V, Cascone C, Gianninò V, Di Marco O, Stefani S
Abstract excerpt
The purposes of the present study were to track the geographic spread of 69 MRSA strains in Italy recovered from 7 hospitals in four towns; to detect the clonal identities among the isolates by a combination of multiple genomic typing methods and to measure temporal trends in clonal types between 1984 and 1998. Our results showed the spread of three major clones among the MRSA isolates of 1984-1995 period: the...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carrier Proteins
- Cross Infection
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Hexosyltransferases
- Italy