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Molecular typing of methicillin-resistant staphylococci isolated from cats and dogs.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2006
Malik Seidu, Coombs Geoffrey W, O'Brien Frances G, Peng Haihong, Barton Mary D
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) isolates from healthy and diseased cats and dogs were characterized by staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec), multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and cassette chromosome recombinase gene (ccrAB) sequencing. METHODS: PCR-directed SCCmec typing was carried out for all MRS isolates and two Staphylococcus aureus and two Staphylococcus epidermidis strains...
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