The pathogenicity and host adaptation of livestock-associated MRSA CC398

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2017, Pages 39-45

  Ballhausen, Britta ^a   Kriegeskorte, André ^a   van Alen, Sarah ^a   Jung, Philipp ^b   Köck, Robin ^a   Peters, Georg ^a   Bischoff, Markus ^b   Becker, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Host adaptation; S. aureus CC398; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; INTERNALIZATION; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; VIRULENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84969674535     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2016.05.006     Document Type: Article

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