Article
Evidence for the geographic spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone between Portugal and Spain.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 1995
Sanches I S, Ramirez M, Troni H, Abecassis M, Padua M, Tomasz A, de Lencastre H
Abstract excerpt
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates collected during a 7-month period in 1992 and 1993 at Hospital Pulido Valente (340 beds), Lisbon, Portugal, were characterized by a combination of genotypic and phenotypic methods. Clonal identities were determined by probing ClaI digest...
Topics
- Cross Infection
- DNA Probes
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Disease Outbreaks
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genes, Bacterial
- Humans
- Methicillin Resistance
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Phenotype
- Portugal
- Spain
- Staphylococcal Infections
- Staphylococcus aureus