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Published on: May 8, 2013
Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from clonal complex 398 with no livestock association in
Egidio Domingos André1, Renata Freire Alves Pereira1,2, Robert Eugene Snyder1,3
1Universidade Federal Fluminense, Laboratóro Universitário Rodolfo Albino, Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Biotecnologia Molecular, Niterói, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract:
CC398 is a livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus. However, it has also been isolated from humans with no previous contact with livestock. A surveillance of methicillin-resistant S. aureus colonisation among children attending public day care centres and hospitals in Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2011 and 2013, resulted in the isolation of six cases of CC398 from individuals with no previous exposure to livestock. These isolates showed a high frequency of the erm(C) gene (4/6, 66.7%) with induced resistance to clindamycin, and a relatively high frequency of SEs and lukS/lukF genes. These results suggest the emergence of a non-LA-CC398 in Brazil.
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