Isolation and characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from swine and workers in China

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 680-683

  Cui, Shenghui ^a   Li, Jingyun ^a   Hu, Changqin ^a   Jin, Shaohong ^a   Li, Fengqin ^b   Guo, Yunchang ^b   Ran, Lu ^b   Ma, Yue ^a,c  

^a Food and Drug Administration   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c National Center for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing; Multilocus sequence typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE CASSETTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NASAL MUCOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE;

EID: 70349459378     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp275     Document Type: Article

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