Isolation of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci from chickens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2072-2077

  Kawano, Junichi ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^a   Saitoh, Yoshihiro ^a   Yagi, Minoru ^a   Saito, Takehiko ^a   Okamoto, Ryoichi ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFALORIDINE; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFTIZOXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MEC A PROTEIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHICKEN; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALLUS GALLUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

EID: 0029783298     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.9.2072-2077.1996     Document Type: Article

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