The clinical impact of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus of the clonal complex 398 for humans

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2017, Pages 33-38

  Becker, Karsten ^a   Ballhausen, Britta ^b   Kahl, Barbara C ^a   Köck, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clonal complex CC398; Epidemiology; Hospital; Infection; Livestock; Livestock associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA MRSA); Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Mortality; Pathogenicity; Staphylococcus aureus; Virulence

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; TETRACYCLINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MASTITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PIG; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84948845249     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2015.11.013     Document Type: Article

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