| detection and characterization of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus pseudintermedius in healthy dogs in la rioja, spain. | the objective was to identify the methicillin-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci (mrcops) nasal carriage rate of healthy dogs in la rioja (spain) and to characterize the recovered isolates by different molecular techniques. nasal samples from 196 dogs were obtained (98 household-dogs, 98 pound-dogs). isolates were identified and characterized by spa-, sccmec- and mlst-typing, smai-pfge, antimicrobial susceptibility, determination of antimicrobial resistance and toxin genes profiling. s. ... | 2011 | 21903268 |