Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and animals: Zoonosis or humanosis?

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1181-1187

  Morgan, Marina ^a  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Companion animals; Horses; MRSA; Panton Valentine leucocidin; Pigs

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE ACETATE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CATTLE DISEASE; CELLULITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LIVESTOCK; MASTITIS; MEAT INDUSTRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; CHIROPTERA; HORSES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PARROTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 56649111429     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn405     Document Type: Review

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