Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by wild urban Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Himsworth, Chelsea G ^a,b   Miller, Ruth R ^b   Montoya, Vincent ^a   Hoang, Linda ^a,c   Romney, Marc G ^a,d   Al Rawahi, Ghada N ^a,e   Kerr, Thomas ^a,d   Jardine, Claire M ^f   Patrick, David M ^a   Tang, Patrick ^a,c   Weese, J Scott ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; NITROFURANTOIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSION; RAT; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; URBAN AREA; WILD SPECIES; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CANADA; CARRIER STATE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OROPHARYNX; PHYLOGENY; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RODENT DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84894616324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087983     Document Type: Article

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