McDougal, Linda K., Tenover, Fred C., Lee, Linda N., Rasheed, J. Kamile, Patterson, Jan E., Jorgensen, James H., ...
A series of macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLS)-resistant pneumococcal isolates of a variety of serotypes was examined and was found to contain Tn917-like elements by DNA-DNA hybridization....
Nicola, Federico G., McDougal, Linda K., Biddle, James W., Tenover, Fred C.
We tested 16 erythromycin-resistant clinical isolates of S. aureus, recovered from patients hospitalized in the United States from 1958 to 1969, for the presence of ermA, ermB, and ermC by using PCR....
McDougal, Linda K., Steward, Christine D., Killgore, George E., Chaitram, Jasmine M., McAllister, Sigrid K., Tenover, Fred C.
Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) is a virulent pathogen responsible for both health care-associated and community onset disease. We used SmaI-digested genomic DNA separated by...
Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolate from a Patient in Pennsylvania
Tenover, Fred C., Weigel, Linda M., Appelbaum, Peter C., McDougal, Linda K., Chaitram, Jasmine, McAllister, Sigrid, ...
A vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) isolate was obtained from a patient in Pennsylvania in September 2002. Species identification was confirmed by standard biochemical tests and...
Steward, Christine D., Raney, Patti M., Morrell, Allison K., Williams, Portia P., McDougal, Linda K., Jevitt, Laura, ...
Disk diffusion and broth microdilution (BMD) were used to perform clindamycin (CLI) induction testing on 128 selected nonduplicate isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Disk diffusion testing involved...
Tenover, Fred C., McDougal, Linda K., Goering, Richard V., Killgore, George, Projan, Steven J., Patel, Jean B., ...
A highly stable strain of Staphylococcus aureus with a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type of USA300 and multilocus sequence type 8 has been isolated from patients residing in diverse geographic...
McDougal, Linda K., Tenover, Fred C., Lee, Linda N., Rasheed, J. Kamile, Patterson, Jan E., Jorgensen, James H., ...
A series of macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLS)-resistant pneumococcal isolates of a variety of serotypes was examined and was found to contain Tn917-like elements by DNA-DNA hybridization....
Nicola, Federico G., McDougal, Linda K., Biddle, James W., Tenover, Fred C.
We tested 16 erythromycin-resistant clinical isolates of S. aureus, recovered from patients hospitalized in the United States from 1958 to 1969, for the presence of ermA, ermB, and ermC by using PCR....
McDougal, Linda K., Steward, Christine D., Killgore, George E., Chaitram, Jasmine M., McAllister, Sigrid K., Tenover, Fred C.
Oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) is a virulent pathogen responsible for both health care-associated and community onset disease. We used SmaI-digested genomic DNA separated by...
Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolate from a Patient in Pennsylvania
Tenover, Fred C., Weigel, Linda M., Appelbaum, Peter C., McDougal, Linda K., Chaitram, Jasmine, McAllister, Sigrid, ...
A vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) isolate was obtained from a patient in Pennsylvania in September 2002. Species identification was confirmed by standard biochemical tests and...
Steward, Christine D., Raney, Patti M., Morrell, Allison K., Williams, Portia P., McDougal, Linda K., Jevitt, Laura, ...
Disk diffusion and broth microdilution (BMD) were used to perform clindamycin (CLI) induction testing on 128 selected nonduplicate isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. Disk diffusion testing involved...
Tenover, Fred C., McDougal, Linda K., Goering, Richard V., Killgore, George, Projan, Steven J., Patel, Jean B., ...
A highly stable strain of Staphylococcus aureus with a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type of USA300 and multilocus sequence type 8 has been isolated from patients residing in diverse geographic...
Weigel, Linda M., Donlan, Rodney M., Shin, Dong Hyeon, Jensen, Bette, Clark, Nancye C., McDougal, Linda K., ...
Glycopeptides such as vancomycin are the treatment of choice for infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. This study describes the identification of high-level...
Bonnstetter, Kristin K., Wolter, Daniel J., Tenover, Fred C., McDougal, Linda K., Goering, Richard V.
Recent reports have noted a discernible increase in the number of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections in patients without traditional risk factors....
Han, Linda L., McDougal, Linda K., Gorwitz, Rachel J., Mayer, Kenneth H., Patel, Jean B., Sennott, Janet M., ...
Individual or multiple resistance to clindamycin, tetracycline, erythromycin, levofloxacin, or mupirocin was detected in a large proportion of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pulsed-field...
Goering, Richard V., McDougal, Linda K., Fosheim, Greg E., Bonnstetter, Kristin K., Wolter, Daniel J., Tenover, Fred C.
We tested 214 Staphylococcus aureus isolates for the arcA locus of the arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). All USA300 SCCmec IVa isolates, but no isolates containing other SCCmec subtypes, were...
Tenover, Fred C., Vaughn, Rebekah R., McDougal, Linda K., Fosheim, Gregory E., McGowan, John E.
Our objective was to determine if a multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat assay (MLVA) for Staphylococcus aureus could predict pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) types (i.e., USA types),...
Swenson, Jana M., Brasso, William B., Ferraro, Mary Jane, Hardy, Dwight J., Knapp, Cynthia C., McDougal, Linda K., ...
A study conducted by 11 laboratories investigated the ability of four combinations of erythromycin (ERY) and clindamycin (CC) (ERY and CC at 4 and 0.5, 6 and 1, 8 and 1.5, and 0.5 and 2 μg/ml) in a...
Zhu, Wenming, Clark, Nancye C., McDougal, Linda K., Hageman, Jeffery, McDonald, L. Clifford, Patel, Jean B.
Five of the seven cases of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) infection identified to date have occurred in southeastern Michigan. VRSA isolates from the four most recent cases (all...
Benoit, Stephen R., Estivariz, Concepción, Mogdasy, Cristina, Pedreira, Walter, Galiana, Antonio, Galiana, Alvaro, ...
Community-associated MRSA appears to be replacing healthcare-associated MRSA strain types in at least 1 facility and is a cause of healthcare-onset infections.
Tenover, Fred C., McAllister, Sigrid, Fosheim, Gregory, McDougal, Linda K., Carey, Roberta B., Limbago, Brandi, ...
This study characterizes methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates recovered from nasal cultures of noninstitutionalized individuals in...