Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus from Raw Meat Samples in Tunisia: Detection of Clonal Lineage ST398 from the African Continent

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 686-692

  Chairat, Sarra ^a   Gharsa, Haythem ^a   Lozano, Carmen ^b   Gómez Sanz, Elena ^b,c   Gómez, Paula ^b   Zarazaga, Myriam ^b   Boudabous, Abdellatif ^a   Torres, Carmen ^b   Ben Slama, Karim ^a,d  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^c ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^d University Tunis El Manar   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RAW MEAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUNISIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEAT; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; TETRACYCLINE; TUNISIA;

EID: 84935048644     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2015.1958     Document Type: Article

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