Article
Major clonal lineages in impetigo Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in Czech and Slovak maternity hospitals.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Nov 2012
Růžičková Vladislava, Pantůček Roman, Petráš Petr, Machová Ivana, Kostýlková Karla, Doškař Jiří
Abstract excerpt
One hundred and twenty-seven exfoliative toxin-producing (ET-positive) strains of Staphylococcus aureus collected in 23 Czech and one Slovak maternity hospitals from 1998 to 2011 were genotypically characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiling, spa gene polymorphism analysis, and ETA-converting prophage carriage, which resulted in the identification of 21...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
