Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus non-aureus infection in an irradiated rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 64-67

  Kolappaswamy, Krishnan ^a   Shipley, Steven T ^a   Tatarov, Ivan I ^a   DeTolla, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; DIPHENHYDRAMINE;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DERMATITIS; DRY SKIN; ERYTHEMA; GAMMA IRRADIATION; LABORATORY TEST; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PYODERMA; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; GAMMA RAYS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MONKEY DISEASES; RADIODERMATITIS; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 44649142669     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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