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MRSA found in Iowa meat : Aetiology. Why am I rehashing all of this? We have a new paper out examining S. aureus in Iowa meats--and did find for the first time MRSA ST398, as well as MRSA USA300 and...
Detection of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome me... [Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011] - PubMed result. Methicillin resistance in staphylococci is mediated by penicillin binding protein 2a (PBP2a) encoded by mecA on mobile staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) elements. In this study two...
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The Distribution of Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) in MRSA CC398 Is Associated with Both Host and Country. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex (CC) 398 has emerged from pigs to cause human infections in Europe and North America. We used a...
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Isolated From Pets Living in Households With MRSA-Infected Children. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is among the most important causes of human healthcare-associated infections. Various studies have described suspected interspecies transmission of MRSA between human patients, their...
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Livestock-associated methicillin-resista... [Int J Med Microbiol. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI. Since 2004 MRSA emerged in animals, particularly in pigs and veal calves. This new MRSA variant was since its first appearance referred to as Livestock Associated-MRSA (LA-MRSA). In Europe...
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Methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS... [Int J Med Microbiol. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI. This mini-review therefore addresses recent findings regarding the increasing prevalence of multi-resistant bacterial pathogens like methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS), including Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) as well...
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H5N1: US: A new superbug: MRSA ST398. A relatively new type of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus could represent the world’s next bacterial epidemic, an environmental health expert said here today at a conference for science writers. The superbug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...
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Prevalence of methicillin-resistant staphylococci in northern Colorado shelter animals. Samples were collected from 200 cats and 200 dogs in an open admission shelter. Each species was divided into 2 smaller groups: 100 dogs or cats housed in the stray ward...
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Plasmid-borne vga(A)-encoding gene in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine farmer in the United States. We report a novel vga(A) detected in 3 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine caretaker in the...
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The Horse | Dutch Girl Contracts MRSA from Friesian Foal, Recovers. 16-year-old Dutch girl has recovered after having supposedly acquired an antibiotic-resistant staph wound infection from her Friesian foal, according to a Dutch researcher. This is only the third study...
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