A foodborne outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus associated with fried chicken in Republic of Korea

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 85-87

  Hyeon, Ji Yeon ^a   Chung, Gyung Tae ^a   Bing, Sun Hye ^b   Kwon, Kyung Sook ^b   Lee, Hyeon Hee ^c   Kim, Soo Jin ^a   Jeon, Se Eun ^a   Kang, Yeon Ho ^a   Kim, Junyoung ^a  

^a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

^b Division of Infectious Disease   (South Korea)

^c Seo gu Daejon Health Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST); Outbreak; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE); Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD SAFETY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; KOREA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL ENTEROTOXIN A GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84873657542     PISSN: 10177825     EISSN: 17388872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.1210.10022     Document Type: Article

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