The presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on large pig breeding farms in Croatia

Habrun, Boris and Račić, Ivana and Beck, Relja and Budimir, Ana and Benić, Miroslav and Kompes, Gordan and Špičić, Silvio and Cvetnić, Željko (2011) The presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on large pig breeding farms in Croatia. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, 59 (4). pp. 419-425. ISSN 0236-6290

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Abstract

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have emerged worldwide and have become resistant to a variety of antibiotics. MRSA colonisation in pigs was first reported from the Netherlands in 2005, where pigs were implicated as a source of human MRSA infections (Voss et al., 2005). This paper presents the first report on the presence of MRSA on large pig breeding farms in Croatia, together with the determination of the mecA gene, the results of spa typing and susceptibility to commonly used antimicrobials. Dust samples (7–11 per farm) were collected from eight large pig farms in Croatia. Of the total 68 swabs, the mecA gene was detected in 24 isolates growing on the MRSA agar. All isolates were resistant to oxacillin, tetracycline and streptomycin, and susceptible only to vancomycin, while 92% of the strains were susceptible to ciprofloxacin. Genotyping of the MRSA strains was performed by spa typing, and revealed t011 (n = 17), t034 (n = 5) and t1451 (n = 2). The results presented here predict that MRSA is present on a large number of pig farms in Croatia.

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