The emergence and spread of multiple livestock-associated clonal complex 398 methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible staphylococcus aureus strains among animals and humans in the Republic of Ireland, 2010-2014

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Brennan, Gráinne I ^a,b   Abbott, Yvonne ^c   Burns, Aisling ^c   Leonard, Finola ^c   McManus, Brenda A ^a   O'Connell, Brian ^a   Coleman, David C ^b   Shore, Anna C ^a,b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CADMIUM ACETATE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; NEOMYCIN; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL COMPLEX 398 METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CLONAL COMPLEX 398 METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; DFRG GENE; DFRK AACA AADD GENE; DFRK AACA APHD GENE; ERM GENE; FEXA GENE; HORSE; HUMAN; IRELAND; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIG; SPC GENE; TET GENE; ANIMAL; CELL CLONE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRELAND; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHENOTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84960330536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149396     Document Type: Article

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