Antimicrobial Resistance in Sporting Animals
Diagnostic Methods - Risk Factors - Prevalence - General Information
Diagnostic Methods
Anderson MEC, Weese JS.
Evaluation of a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus direction from nasal swabs in horses.
Vet Microbiol 2007;122: 185-189.
Abstract
Risk Factors
JS Weese, S Lefebvre
Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in horses admitted to a veterinary teaching hospital.
Can Vet J 2007;48:921-926.
Abstract
Prevalence
JS Weese, J Rousseau, BM Willey, M Archambault, A McGeer, DE Low.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in horses at a veterinary teaching hospital: frequency, characterization and association with clinical disease.
J Vet Int Med 2006; 20:182-186.
Abstract
M Vengust, MEC Anderson, J Rousseau, JS Weese.
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcal colonization in clinically normal dogs and horses in the community.
Lett Appl Microbiol. 2006;43:602-6.
Abstract
JS Weese, F Caldwell, BM Willey, BN Kreiswirth, A McGeer, DE Low.
An outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections resulting from horse to human transmission in a veterinary hospital.
Vet Microbiol. 2005; 114: 160-164.
Abstract
JS Weese, M Archambault, BM Willey, P Hearn, BN Kreiswirth, B Said-Salim, A McGeer, Y Likhoshvay, JF Prescott, DE Low.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in horses and horse personnel, 2000-2002.
Emerg Infect Dis 2005;11:430-435.
Abstract
JS Weese, J Rousseau, JL Traub-Dargatz, BM Willey, AJ McGeer, DE Low.
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in horses and humans who work with horses.
J Am Vet Med Assoc 2005;226:580-583.
Abstract
General Information
JS Weese, J Rousseau.
Attempted eradication of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in horses on two farms.
Equine Vet J. 2005;37:510-514.
Abstract
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