| short communication: prevalence of methicillin resistance in coagulase-negative staphylococci and staphylococcus aureus isolated from bulk milk on organic and conventional dairy farms in the united states. | the objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococcus spp. in bulk tank milk samples from 288 organic and conventional dairy farms located in new york, wisconsin, and oregon from march 2009 to may 2011. due to recent publications reporting the presence mecc (a meca homolog not detected by traditional meca-based pcr methods), a combination of genotypic and phenotypic approaches was used to enhance the recovery ... | 2014 | 24582450 |