Sharing more than friendship - nasal colonization with coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) and co-habitation aspects of dogs and their owners

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Walther, Birgit ^a   Hermes, Julia ^b   Cuny, Christiane ^b   Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Vincze, Szilvia ^a   Elnaga, Yassmin Abou ^a   Stamm, Ivonne ^c   Kopp, Peter A ^c   Kohn, Barbara ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^b   Jansen, Andreas ^b   Conraths, Franz J ^d   Semmler, Torsten ^a   Eckmanns, Tim ^b   Lübke Becker, Antina ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c Vet Med Labor GmbH   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BED; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COAGULASE POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FACE; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HAND; HUMAN; LICKING; MALE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOSE; NOSE SMEAR; OWNER; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PSEUDINTERMEDIUS; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COAGULASE; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859957536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035197     Document Type: Article

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