Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as Causes of Human Infection and Colonization in Germany

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Köck, Robin ^a   Schaumburg, Frieder ^a   Mellmann, Alexander ^a   Köksal, Mahir ^b   Jurke, Annette ^c   Becker, Karsten ^a   Friedrich, Alexander W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c North Rhine Westphalian Center for Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GERMANY; LIVESTOCK; LUNG FLUID; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPA GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; GERMANY; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84873917678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055040     Document Type: Article

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