Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Detected at Four U.S. wastewater treatment plants

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1551-1558

  Rosenberg Goldstein, Rachel E ^a   Micallef, Shirley A ^a,b   Gibbs, Shawn G ^c   Davis, Johnnie A ^d   He, Xin ^a   George, Ashish ^a   Kleinfelter, Lara M ^a   Schreiber, Nicole A ^a   Mukherjee, Sampa ^d   Sapkota, Amir ^a   Joseph, Sam W ^a,e   Sapkota, Amy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; MSSA; Reclaimed wastewater; Wastewater; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; WORKER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EXOTOXINS; LEUKOCIDINS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTE WATER;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84868576157     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205436     Document Type: Article

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