Pet-to-Man Travelling Staphylococci

Doctor Clinical Microbiology and Virology, Spirito Santo Hospital, Pescara, Italy Member of Journal editorial board, Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery Contributing member of American Society for Microbiology

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 Staphylococcus aureus 15. Diagnostics: Routine Identification on Standard and Chromogenic Media, and Advanced Automated Methods 16. Molecular Identification and Genotyping of Staphylococci: Genus, Species, Strains, Clones, Lineages, and Interspecies Exchanges 17. Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus 18. In Vivo Resistance Mechanisms: Staphylococcal Biofilms 19. Autovaccines in Individual Therapy of Staphylococcal Infections 20. Experimental Animal Models in Evaluation of Staphylococcal Pathogenicity 21. Application of Staphylococci in the Food Industry and Biotechnology