Evaluation of Multiple-Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeats Analysis for Typing Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brandt, Karin M ^a   Mellmann, Alexander ^a   Ballhausen, Britta ^a   Jenke, Christian ^a   van der Wolf, Peter J ^b   Broens, Els M ^c   Becker, Karsten ^a   Köck, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SPA GENE; SWINE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GERMANY; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; SWINE;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84872672972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054425     Document Type: Article

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