Article
Comparative genomics of the Staphylococcus intermedius group of animal pathogens.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2012
Ben Zakour Nouri L, Beatson Scott A, van den Broek Adri H M, Thoday Keith L, Fitzgerald J Ross
Abstract excerpt
The Staphylococcus intermedius group consists of three closely related coagulase-positive bacterial species including S. intermedius, Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, and Staphylococcus delphini. S. pseudintermedius is a major skin pathogen of dogs, which occasionally causes severe zoonotic infections of humans. S. delphini has been isolated from an array of different animals including horses, mink, and pigeons,...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Bacterial
- Dogs
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid