Community-acquired MRSA and pig-farming

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Huijsdens, Xander W ^a   van Dijke, Beatrix J ^b   Spalburg, Emile ^a   van Santen Verheuvel, Marga G ^a   Heck, Max E O C ^a   Pluister, Gerlinde N ^a   Voss, Andreas ^c,d   Wannet, Wim J B ^a   de Neeling, Albert J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b St Jansgasthuis Department of Medical Microbiology   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A; TEICOPLANIN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MALAISE; MALE; MASTITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; OTITIS; PERINEUM; PIG FARMING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REGULATOR GENE; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWINE; THROAT CULTURE; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MASTITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NASAL CAVITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 34249312677     PISSN: 14760711     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-5-26     Document Type: Article

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