Treatment of a lower urinary tract infection in a cat caused by a multi-drug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius and Enterococcus faecalis

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 802-806

  Pomba, Constança ^a   Couto, Natasha ^a   Moodley, Arshnee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROFURANTOIN; URINARY TRACT ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NITROFURANTOIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PSEUDINTERMEDIUS;

EID: 77956876954     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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