Biocide susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus CC398 and CC30 isolates from pigs and identification of the biocide resistance genes, qacG and qacC

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 527-536

  Seier Petersen, Maria Amalie ^a   Nielsen, Lene Nørby ^b   Ingmer, Hanne ^b   Aarestrup, Frank Møller ^a   Agersø, Yvonne ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGAR; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BIOCIDE; CAUSTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FLORFENICOL; FORMALDEHYDE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TIAMULIN; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BENZALKONIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ISOPROTEIN; QACA PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACCUMULATION ASSAY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HEMOLYSIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM BACTERICIDAL CONCENTRATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; PIG; PIG FARMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QACCC GENE; QACG GENE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SHEEP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWINE DISEASE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; DISINFECTANTS; ERYTHROCYTES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SHEEP; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84943273086     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2014.0215     Document Type: Article

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