Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus responsible for human colonization and infection in an area of Italy with high density of pig farming

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Monaco, Monica ^a   Pedroni, Palmino ^b   Sanchini, Andrea ^a,c,d   Bonomini, Annalisa ^b   Indelicato, Annamaria ^b   Pantosti, Annalisa ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera Desenzano del Garda   (Italy)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonization, Community acquired infections; Livestock associated (LA) MRSA; Pigs; ST398

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; LIVESTOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PIG FARMING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; NASAL CAVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84878358690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-258     Document Type: Article

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