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Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Staphylococcus aureus causing persistent and nonpersistent subclinical bovine intramammary infections during lactation or the dry period.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jan 2015
Veh K A, Klein R C, Ster C, Keefe G, Lacasse P, Scholl D, Roy J-P, Haine D, Dufour S, Talbot B G, Ribon A O B, Malouin F
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococcus aureus is a significant pathogen frequently causing persistent intramammary infections (IMI) in dairy cows. We compared some genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of 285 strains collected from quarter milk samples from cows with persistent and nonpersistent subclinical IMI across Canada. Variable number of tandem repeats typing was used to infer the persistence of the same S. aureus strain in 3...
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