Multilocus sequence typing of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from high-somatic-cell-count cows and the environment of an organic dairy farm in the United Kingdom

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4731-4736

  Smith, E M ^a,b   Green, L E ^a   Medley, G F ^a   Bird, H E ^a   Dowson, C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DAIRY CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENVIRONMENT; HERD; MACHINE; MASTITIS; MILK; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CELL COUNT; DAIRYING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BOS TAURUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 24744432923     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.9.4731-4736.2005     Document Type: Article

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