Methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci on pig farms as a reservoir of heterogeneous staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-304

  Tulinski, Pawel ^a   Fluit, Ad C ^b   Wagenaar, Jaap A ^a,c   Mevius, Dik ^a,c   van de Vijver, Lucy ^d   Duim, Birgitta ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LOUIS BOLK INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMIDIS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; S. AUREUS;

BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES; ENZYME INHIBITION; MAMMALS;

FARMS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COAGULASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PIG;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COAGULASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SWINE;

IVA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84855729723     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05594-11     Document Type: Article

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