Pig-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Family transmission and severe pneumonia in a newborn

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 318-320

  Hartmeyer, Gitte Nyvang ^a   Gahrn Hansen, Bente ^a   Skov, Robert L ^b   Kolmos, Hans J ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFUROXIME; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; SWINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77949457684     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365540903510708     Document Type: Article

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