Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
First report of lukM-positive livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC30 from fattening pigs in Northern Ireland.
- Journal:
- Veterinary microbiology
- Year:
- 2016
- Authors:
- Lahuerta-Marin, Angela et al.
- Affiliation:
- Agri-food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) · United Kingdom
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.
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