Correlation between animal nasal carriage and environmental methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates at U.S. horse and cattle farms

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 539-543

  Peterson, Amy E ^a   Davis, Meghan F ^a   Awantang, Grace ^a   Limbago, Brandi ^b   Fosheim, Gregory E ^b   Silbergeld, Ellen K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle; Environmental microbiology; Horses; Methicillin resistant Stapylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; HORSE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOSE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CONGIOPODIDAE; EQUIDAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84869086335     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.06.032     Document Type: Article

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