Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 398 in humans, Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 587-594

  Golding, George R ^a   Bryden, Louis ^a   Levett, Paul N ^b   McDonald, Ryan R ^b   Wong, Alice ^c   Wylie, John ^d   Graham, Morag R ^a   Tyler, Shaun ^a   van Domselaar, Gary ^a   Simor, Andrew E ^e   Gravel, Denise ^f   Mulvey, Michael R ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory   (Canada)

^c ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d Cadham Provincial Laboratories   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; NITROFURANTOIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MEC PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CASSETTE CHROMOSOME MECV PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

AGED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; MANITOBA; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PREVALENCE; SASKATCHEWAN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE;

EID: 77950634977     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1604.091435     Document Type: Article

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