Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 66, Issue 2 , Pages 217-221, February 2010

Occurrence and genotyping using automated repetitive-sequence–based PCR of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in Southeast Austria☆☆☆

  • Andrea J. Grisold

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43-316-380-4383; fax: +43-316-380-9650.
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  • Gernot Zarfel

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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  • Martin Hoenigl

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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  • Karina Krziwanek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, National Reference Centre for Nosocomial Infections and Antibiotic Resistance, Elisabethinen Hospital, A-4010 Linz, Austria
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  • Gebhard Feierl

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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  • Lilian Masoud

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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  • Eva Leitner

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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  • Ute Wagner-Eibel

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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  • Alexandra Badura

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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  • Egon Marth

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria

Received 30 May 2009; accepted 2 September 2009. published online 15 October 2009.

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☆ Results presented in part at the 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Helsinki, Finland, May 16–19, 2009.

☆☆ Competing interests. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

PII: S0732-8893(09)00369-1

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.09.006

Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 66, Issue 2 , Pages 217-221, February 2010

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