• DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0089716
Corpus ID: 4586380

Molecular Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Clinical Staphylococcus aureus from Healthcare Institutions in Ghana

@article{Egyir2014MolecularEA,
  title={Molecular Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Clinical Staphylococcus aureus from Healthcare Institutions in Ghana},
  author={B. Egyir and L. Guardabassi and M. S{\o}rum and S. Nielsen and Augusta Kolekang and E. Frimpong and K. Addo and M. Newman and A. Larsen},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2014},
  volume={9}
}

B. Egyir, L. Guardabassi, +6 authors A. Larsen

Published 2014

Medicine

PLoS ONE

The objective of this study was to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and clonal diversity of clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Ghana. A total of 308 S. aureus isolates from six healthcare institutions located across Northern, Central and Southern Ghana were characterized by antibiotyping, spa typing and PCR detection of Panton Valentine leukocin (PVL) genes. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) were confirmed by PCR detection of mecA gene and further characterized… CONTINUE READING

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