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Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus genotypes recovered from cases of bovine, ovine, and caprine mastitis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2005
Mørk T, Tollersrud T, Kvitle B, Jørgensen H J, Waage S
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Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen in domestic ruminants. The main objective of this study was to determine the similarity of epidemiologically unrelated S. aureus isolates from bovine, ovine, and caprine mastitis. By pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, 160 different pulsotypes (PTs) were identified among 905 isolates recovered from 588 herds in 12 counties in Norway. Based on estimates of similarity,...
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