Prevalence, antibiotic resistance, virulence traits and genetic lineages of Staphylococcus aureus in healthy sheep in Tunisia

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 367-373

  Gharsa, Haythem ^a   Ben Slama, Karim ^a   Lozano, Carmen ^b   Gómez Sanz, Elena ^b   Klibi, Naouel ^a   Ben Sallem, Rym ^a   Gómez, Paula ^b   Zarazaga, Myriam ^b   Boudabous, Abdellatif ^a   Torres, Carmen ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistance; PVL; Staphylococcus aureus; TSST

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; KANAMYCIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNE EVASION; INOCULATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHEEP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOSE; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUNISIA; VIRULENCE;

BOVINAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OVIS ARIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84858752426     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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