Multidrug-resistant and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hog slaughter and processing plant workers and their community in North Carolina (USA)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 471-477

  Neyra, Ricardo Castillo ^a   Frisancho, Jose Augusto ^a   Rinsky, Jessica L ^b   Resnick, Carol ^a   Carroll, Karen Colleen ^c   Rule, Ana Maria ^a   Ross, Tracy ^c   You, Yaqi ^a   Price, Lance B ^d   Silbergeld, Ellen Kovner ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; QUINUPRISTIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISK DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NORTH CAROLINA; SWINE;

EID: 84899759386     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306741     Document Type: Article

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