| Literature DB >> 26711039 |
Angela Lahuerta-Marin1, Maria Guelbenzu-Gonzalo2, Bruno Pichon3, Adrian Allen2, Michel Doumith3, John F Lavery2, Conrad Watson2, Christopher J Teale4, Angela M Kearns3.
Abstract
The increasing number of reports of livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) world-wide attests to the public health concern surrounding this pathogen in animal husbandry and in-contact humans. In Europe, LA-MRSA CC398 is predominant and generally regarded as being of low virulence for animals. Herein we report the recovery of a lineage of LA-MRSA, belonging to CC30, from three pigs in Northern Ireland and which encodes a marker of virulence (lukM and lukF-P83) restricted to animal-associated clones of S. aureus.Entities:
Keywords: Clonal Complex 30; LA-MRSA; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Pigs; lukM
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26711039 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2015.11.019
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vet Microbiol ISSN: 0378-1135 Impact factor: 3.293