Human-associated staphylococcus aureus strains within great ape populations in Central Africa (Gabon)

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1072-1077

  Nagel, M ^a   Dischinger, J ^b   Turck M ^b   Verrier, D ^a   Oedenkoven, M ^b   Ngoubangoye, B ^a   Le Flohic, G ^a   Drexler, J F ^b   Bierbaum, G ^b   Gonzalez, J P ^a  

^a International Centre for Medical Research   (Gabon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Colonization; Furunculosis; Gorilla; Great apes; Interspecies transmission; Sepsis; Species barrier; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHIMPANZEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GORILLA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALIA; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CHIMPANZEE; COLONIZATION; FURUNCULOSIS; GORILLA; GREAT APES; INTERSPECIES TRANSMISSION; SEPSIS; SPECIES BARRIER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GABON; HOMINIDAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PRIMATE DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84885470903     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12119     Document Type: Article

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