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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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Autores principales: Van den Eede, Annelies, Martens, Ann, Feryn, Isabelle, Vanderhaeghen, Wannes, Lipinska, Urszula, Gasthuys, Frank, Butaye, Patrick, Haesebrouck, Freddy, Hermans, Katleen
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Publicado: 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.
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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
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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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