Surveillance of healthy cats and cats with inflammatory skin disease for colonization of the skin by methicillin-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci and Staphylococcus schleiferi ssp. schleiferi

Veterinary Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 252-259

  Abraham, Jill L ^a,b   Morris, Daniel O ^a   Griffeth, Gregory C ^a   Shofer, Frances S ^a   Rankin, Shelley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHILADELPHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HYICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCHLEIFERI;

EID: 34547324213     PISSN: 09594493     EISSN: 13653164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3164.2007.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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