Swine farming is a risk factor for infection with and high prevalence of carriage of multidrug-resistant staphylococcus aureus

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 59-66

  Wardyn, Shylo E ^a   Forshey, Brett M ^a   Farina, Sarah A ^a   Kates, Ashley E ^a   Nair, Rajeshwari ^a   Quick, Megan K ^a   Wu, James Y ^a   Hanson, Blake M ^a   O'Malley, Sean M ^a   Shows, Hannah W ^a   Heywood, Ellen M ^a   Beane Freeman, Laura E ^c   Lynch, Charles F ^a   Carrel, Margaret ^b   Smith, Tara C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colonization; livestock associated Staphylococcus aureus; multidrug resistance; Staphylococcus aureus; swine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOVINE; CHICKEN; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PIG FARMING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROAT CULTURE; UNITED STATES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HETEROZYGOTE; INFANT; IOWA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOSE CAVITY; PHARYNX; PIG; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; IOWA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHARYNX; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953888361     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ234     Document Type: Article

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