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Marlon Zambrano-Mila1,2, Angel S Rodriguez1,2, Ismar A Rivera-Olivero1
1One Health Research Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
One Health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
|December 20, 2019
Abstract:
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem in human and veterinary medicine. Here we show that 6.25% of the guinea pigs studied in Ecuador, raised as livestock, carry methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the nasopharynx and therefore may potentially play a role in the transmission of MRSA in the Andean Region of South America.
