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SUBMITTER: Waters AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3079400 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20110415 10
We characterized the prevalence, antibiotic susceptibility profiles, and genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus among US meat and poultry samples (n = 136). S. aureus contaminated 47% of samples, and multidrug resistance was common among isolates (52%). S. aureus genotypes and resistance profiles differed significantly among sample types, suggesting food animal-specific contamination. ...[more]