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Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level
BACKGROUND: In Europe, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) belonging to the clonal complex (CC) 398 has become an important pathogen in horses, circulating in equine clinics and causing both colonization and infection. Whether equine MRSA is bound to hospitals or can also circulate in...
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23134703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-8-213 |
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author | Van den Eede, Annelies Martens, Ann Feryn, Isabelle Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Lipinska, Urszula Gasthuys, Frank Butaye, Patrick Haesebrouck, Freddy Hermans, Katleen |
author_facet | Van den Eede, Annelies Martens, Ann Feryn, Isabelle Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Lipinska, Urszula Gasthuys, Frank Butaye, Patrick Haesebrouck, Freddy Hermans, Katleen |
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description | BACKGROUND: In Europe, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) belonging to the clonal complex (CC) 398 has become an important pathogen in horses, circulating in equine clinics and causing both colonization and infection. Whether equine MRSA is bound to hospitals or can also circulate in the general horse population is currently unknown. This study, therefore, reports the nasal and perianal MRSA screening of 189 horses on 10 farms in a suspected high prevalence region (East- and West-Flanders, Belgium). RESULTS: Only one horse (0.53%) from one farm (10%) tested positive in the nose. It carried a spa type t011-SCCmecV isolate, resistant to β-lactams and tetracycline, which is typical for livestock-associated MRSA CC398. CONCLUSION: In the region tested here, horses on horse farms seem unlikely to substantially contribute to the large animal associated ST398 MRSA reservoir present at intensive animal production units. |
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spelling | pubmed-35365712013-01-08 Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level Van den Eede, Annelies Martens, Ann Feryn, Isabelle Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Lipinska, Urszula Gasthuys, Frank Butaye, Patrick Haesebrouck, Freddy Hermans, Katleen BMC Vet Res Research Article BACKGROUND: In Europe, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) belonging to the clonal complex (CC) 398 has become an important pathogen in horses, circulating in equine clinics and causing both colonization and infection. Whether equine MRSA is bound to hospitals or can also circulate in the general horse population is currently unknown. This study, therefore, reports the nasal and perianal MRSA screening of 189 horses on 10 farms in a suspected high prevalence region (East- and West-Flanders, Belgium). RESULTS: Only one horse (0.53%) from one farm (10%) tested positive in the nose. It carried a spa type t011-SCCmecV isolate, resistant to β-lactams and tetracycline, which is typical for livestock-associated MRSA CC398. CONCLUSION: In the region tested here, horses on horse farms seem unlikely to substantially contribute to the large animal associated ST398 MRSA reservoir present at intensive animal production units. BioMed Central 2012-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3536571/ /pubmed/23134703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-8-213 Text en Copyright ©2012 Van den Eede et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Van den Eede, Annelies Martens, Ann Feryn, Isabelle Vanderhaeghen, Wannes Lipinska, Urszula Gasthuys, Frank Butaye, Patrick Haesebrouck, Freddy Hermans, Katleen Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level |
title | Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level |
title_full | Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level |
title_fullStr | Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level |
title_full_unstemmed | Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level |
title_short | Low MRSA prevalence in horses at farm level |
title_sort | low mrsa prevalence in horses at farm level |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23134703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-8-213 |
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