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Staphylococcus aureus ST398 from slaughter pigs in northeast China.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 May 2014
Yan Xiaomei, Yu Xiaojie, Tao Xiaoxia, Zhang Jianfeng, Zhang Binghua, Dong Rui, Xue Chengyu, Grundmann Hajo, Zhang Jianzhong
Abstract excerpt
To describe the prevalence and population structure of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that colonize pigs at slaughterhouses in northeastern China, nose swabs were collected from pigs in two slaughterhouses in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China in 2009. S. aureus isolates were characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), spa typing, SCCmec typing, antimicrobial susceptibility testing and pvl gene...
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