Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among beefpacking workers in a Midwestern United States slaughterhouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Leibler, Jessica H ^a   Jordan, Jeanne A ^b   Brownstein, Kirsten ^b   Lander, Lina ^c   Price, Lance B ^b,d   Perry, Melissa J ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM NASAL CARRIAGE; BEEF; BEEFPACKING WORKER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUKF PV GENE; LUKS PV GENE; MALE; MEAT INDUSTRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SCN GENE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SPA GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISPANIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEBRASKA; NOSE CAVITY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

ABATTOIRS; ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; MEAT; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NEBRASKA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84959450351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148789     Document Type: Article

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