Novel Corynebacterium diphtheriae in domestic cats

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 688-691

  Hall, Aron J ^a,b   Cassiday, Pamela K ^a   Bernard, Kathryn A ^c   Bolt, Frances ^d   Steigerwalt, Arnold G ^a   Bixler, Danae ^b   Pawloski, Lucia C ^a   Whitney, Anne M ^a   Iwaki, Masaaki ^e   Baldwin, Adam ^d   Dowson, Christopher G ^d   Komiya, Takako ^e   Takahashi, Motohide ^e   Hinrikson, Hans P ^a   Tondella, Maria L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ENROFLOXACIN; ERTAPENEM; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTITIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI ZOOEPIDEMICUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 77950642723     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1604.091107     Document Type: Article

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