Pet-to-Man Travelling Staphylococci A World in Progress [Paperback]

Pet-to-Man Travelling Staphylococci: A World in Progress explores Staphylococci, a dangerous pathogen that affects both humans and animals with a wide range of infection states. This bacteria can spread rapidly as a commensal organism in both humans and pets, and is an agent of disease. Staphylococci are potentially highly virulent pathogens which require urgent medical attention. In addition, Staphylococci remain a threat within hospital environments, where they can quickly spread across a patient population. This book explores the organisms' resistance to many compounds used to treat them, treatment failure and multidrug resistant staphylococci, amongst other related topics.

• Focuses not only on man and animal staphylococcal diseases, but on the role of shared household in man-to-pet (and vice versa) transmission
• Underlines the importance of professional exposure to mammals (i.e. veterinary and farm personnel) in the establishment of shared colonization's and related diseases
• Highlights the impact of shared staphylococci and virulence determinants in human and veterinary pathology
• Sheds light on the way staphylococci may be recognized in clinical laboratories

1. Staphylococcal Taxonomy 2. Staphylococcal Ecology and Epidemiology 3. Coagulase-Positive and Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci in Human Disease 4. Coagulase-Positive and Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Animal Diseases 5. Transfer of Staphylococci and Related Genetic Elements 6. Food-Borne Transmission of Staphylococci 7. The Staphylococcal Coagulases 8. The Staphylococcal Hemolysins 9. The Staphylococcal Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) 10. The Staphylococcal Exfoliative Toxins 11. Extracellular Proteases of Staphylococcus spp. 12. Staphylococcal Lipases 13. Staphylococcal Bacteriocins 14. Phage-Associated Virulence Determinants of Staphylocoló2