Persistence of livestock-associated antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among industrial hog operation workers in North Carolina over 14 days

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 90-99

  Nadimpalli, Maya ^a   Rinsky, Jessica L ^b   Wing, Steve ^b   Hall, Devon ^c   Stewart, Jill ^a   Larsen, Jesper ^d   Nachman, Keeve E ^e,f   Love, Dave C ^e,f   Pierce, Elizabeth ^a   Pisanic, Nora ^f   Strelitz, Jean ^b   Harduar Morano, Laurel ^b   Heaney, Christopher D ^f  

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

^b IL   (United States)

^c Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH)   (United States)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCN GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BACTERIAL GENE; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NORTH CAROLINA; NOSE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PIG; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; NOSE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; TETRACYCLINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920718806     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102095     Document Type: Article

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