Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 isolates with indistinguishable ApaI restriction patterns in colonized and infected pigs and humans

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2479-2481

  Pomba, Constança ^a   Baptista, Filipa M ^a,b   Couto, Natacha ^a   Loução, Felisbela ^a   Hasman, Henrik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Exudative epidermitis; Outbreak; PFGE; Public health; Swine

Indexed keywords

APAI ENZYME; CEFTIOFUR; COLISTIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EXUDATIVE EPIDERMITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE;

EID: 77957864344     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq330     Document Type: Letter

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