Commercially distributed meat as a potential vehicle for community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2797-2802

  Ogata, Kikuyo ^a,d   Narimatsu, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Masahiro ^b   Higuchi, Wataru ^c   Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^c   Taniguchi, Hatsumi ^d  

^a Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

^b AICHI PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENTEROTOXIN; MEAT SAMPLES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OPEN READING FRAME; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TOXIC SHOCKS;

BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS;

MEATS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ELECTROKINESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MEAT; SAMPLING; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MEAT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; FECES; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; MEAT; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

JAPAN; KYUSHU; OITA;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84861113326     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07470-11     Document Type: Article

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