Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus from nasal samples of healthy farm animals and pets in Tunisia
Autor: | Lilia Messadi, Abdellatif Boudabous, Karim Ben Slama, Carmen Lozano, Elena Gómez-Sanz, Myriam Zarazaga, Carmen Torres, Haythem Gharsa |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Veterinary medicine
Staphylococcus aureus Tunisia Tetracycline Virulence Factors Bacterial Toxins Virulence Exotoxins Penicillins Biology Nose Staphylococcal infections medicine.disease_cause Microbiology Methicillin Antibiotic resistance Dogs Leukocidins Virology medicine Animals Humans Goats Pets biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition Staphylococcal Infections medicine.disease Anti-Bacterial Agents Bacterial Typing Techniques Penicillin Infectious Diseases Streptomycin Animals Domestic Carrier State Cats Multilocus sequence typing Cattle medicine.drug Multilocus Sequence Typing |
Zdroj: | Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.). 15(2) |
ISSN: | 1557-7759 |
Popis: | A total of 261 healthy farm and pet animals (75 cattle, 52 goats, 100 dogs, and 34 cats) from different regions of Tunisia were screened for Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage. Molecular typing of isolates (by spa- and multilocus sequence-typing) was performed, and their antimicrobial resistance and virulence genotypes were determined by PCR and sequencing. S. aureus isolates were detected in 17 of 261 tested samples (6.5%). All S. aureus isolates recovered were methicillin-susceptible (MSSA), and one isolate/sample was further studied. Eight different spa types were detected (t189, t279, t582, t701, t1166, t1268, t1534, and t1773), and eight different sequence types were identified (ST6, ST15, ST45, ST133, ST188, ST700 [clonal complex CC130], ST2057, and a new ST2121). MSSA from pets (six isolates) showed resistance to (number of isolates, resistance gene): penicillin (six, blaZ), tetracycline (one, tet[M]), erythromycin one, erm[A]), streptomycin (one, ant[6]-Ia), and ciprofloxacin (one). All isolates from farm animals showed susceptibility to the tested antimicrobials, except for two penicillin-resistant isolates. Five S. aureus isolates from goats and cats harbored the lukF/lukS-PV genes, encoding the Panton-Valentine leukocidin, and six isolates from goats harbored the tst virulence gene. In addition, diverse combinations of enterotoxin genes were detected, including two variants of the egc cluster. Goats and cats could represent a reservoir of important toxin genes, with potential implications in animal and human health. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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