Sharing more than friendship--nasal colonization with coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) and co-habitation aspects of dogs and their owners.

<h4>Background</h4>Since the relationship between dogs and their owners has changed, and dogs moved from being working dogs to family members in post-industrial countries, we hypothesized that zoonotic transmission of opportunistic pathogens like coagulase positive staphylococci (CPS) is...

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Main Authors: Birgit Walther, Julia Hermes, Christiane Cuny, Lothar H Wieler, Szilvia Vincze, Yassmin Abou Elnaga, Ivonne Stamm, Peter A Kopp, Barbara Kohn, Wolfgang Witte, Andreas Jansen, Franz J Conraths, Torsten Semmler, Tim Eckmanns, Antina Lübke-Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22529990/?tool=EBI