Staphylococcus aureus ST398 detected in pigs in Australia
| Autor: | Geoffrey W. Coombs, Darren J. Trott, Matthew V. N. O'Sullivan, Robert Skov, Mitchell D. Groves, Huub J. M. Brouwers, David Jordan, Sam Abraham, Rafat Al Jassim, Toni A. Chapman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty Veterinary medicine Staphylococcus aureus Genotype Swine Microbial Sensitivity Tests medicine.disease_cause Antibiotic resistance Epidemiology medicine Animals Pharmacology (medical) Pathogen Pharmacology Molecular Epidemiology Transmission (medicine) business.industry Australia Staphylococcal Infections Molecular Typing Infectious Diseases Nasal Swab Targeted surveillance business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy. 69(5) |
| ISSN: | 1460-2091 |
| Popis: | Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have recently emerged in many countries. They appear adapted for transmission amongst intensively managed animals, including pigs, cattle, poultry and horses. Those belonging to multilocus sequence type (ST) 398 have notably caused serious infections in humans exposed to colonized animals.To date, MRSA has not been reported in food-producing animals in Australia. However, ST398 MRSA was recently detected in a nasal swab from a swine veterinarian in Australia. A lack of targeted surveillance means that the presence of MRSA in Australian food-producing animals may have gone undetected. We report here the first detection of MRSA in Australian pigs, the molecular characteristics of the recovered isolates and the impact on our understanding of the global epidemiology of this priority pathogen... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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