Clinical features of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in rabbits and its zoonotic potentials

Pakistan Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 244-249

  Hamed, Dalia M ^a   Youssef, Ahmed I ^b  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Infertility; MRSA; Rabbit; Staphylococcus aureus; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EYE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HERD; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LUNG; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOSE; NOSE SMEAR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERINEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABBIT; RABBIT MEAT; SKIN; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; UTERUS; VAGINA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84879263692     PISSN: 16805194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjn.2013.244.249     Document Type: Article

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