Comparison of spa Types, SCCmec types and antimicrobial resistance profiles of MRSA isolated from Turkeys at farm, slaughter and from retail meat indicates transmission along the production chain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Vossenkuhl, Birgit ^a   Brandt, Jörgen ^a,b   Fetsch, Alexandra ^a   Käsbohrer, Annemarie ^a   Kraushaar, Britta ^a   Alt, Katja ^a,c   Tenhagen, Bernd Alois ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZEKANOWSKI INDEX; FOOD CHAIN; GENE CASSETTE; GENOTYPE; MEAT INDUSTRY; MEC GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPA GENE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WILD BOAR; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOD CONTROL; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TURKEY (BIRD); VETERINARY; ZOONOSIS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GERMANY; MEAT PRODUCTS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POULTRY DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TURKEYS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84900300023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096308     Document Type: Article

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