Article
Analysis of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus by a molecular typing method based on coagulase gene polymorphisms.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 1995
Kobayashi N, Taniguchi K, Kojima K, Urasawa S, Uehara N, Omizu Y, Kishi Y, Yagihashi A, Kurokawa I
Abstract excerpt
A molecular typing method for Staphylococcus aureus based on coagulase gene polymorphisms (coagulase gene typing) was evaluated by examining a total of 240 isolates which comprised 210 methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and 30 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) collected from a single hospital. By AluI restriction enzyme digestion of the PCR-amplified 3'-end region of the coagulase gene including 81-bp...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Coagulase
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Japan
- Methicillin
- Methicillin Resistance
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests