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Epidemiological analysis of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from cows and the environment of a dairy farm in Japan.
The Journal of veterinary medical science - 1 May 2010
Hata Eiji, Kobayashi Hideki, Nakajima Hiromi, Shimizu Yûka, Eguchi Masashi
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A case of Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infection (IMI) on a Japanese dairy farm was monitored for 9 months. S. aureus isolates from cows and environmental samples consisted of specific strains with sequence types 352 and 705, as determined by multilocus sequence typing. Clonal strains of these sequence types are isolated from cows worldwide, indicating that they are adapted to the bovine environment. These...
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