Clinical and molecular features of methicillin-resistant, coagulase-negative staphylococci of pets and horses

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1256-1266

  Kern, Andrea ^a   Perreten, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ACME; animals; Antimicrobial resistance; CoNS; Genotyping; Infections; MecA; MLST

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; CEFOVECIN; CEFQUINOME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; ENROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FRAMYCETIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MARBOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; STREPTOTHRICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ABSCESS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CAT; DOG; EAR INFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORSE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCHLEIFERI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VETERINARY CLINIC;

ACME; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE; CONS; GENOTYPING; INFECTIONS; MECA; MLST;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COAGULASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PETS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84884911374     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt020     Document Type: Article

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