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Farm-specific lineages of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 in Danish p...

Farm-specific lineages of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 in Danish p...

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Farm-specific lineages of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 in Danish pig farms

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Full title

Farm-specific lineages of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 in Danish pig farms

Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Epidemiology and infection, 2012-10, Vol.140 (10), p.1794-1799

Language

English

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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Contents

The objective of this study was to investigate the genetic diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clonal complex (CC) 398 using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Dust and pigs at five age groups were sampled in six Danish MRSA-positive pig farms. MRSA CC398 was isolated from 284 of the 391 samples tested, including 2...

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Full title

Farm-specific lineages of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 in Danish pig farms

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1367488307

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1367488307

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ISSN

0950-2688,1469-4409

E-ISSN

1469-4409

DOI

10.1017/S0950268811002391

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