Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology and Carol Yu Centre for Infection, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
2. Department of Clinical Pathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Out of 3,081 animals studied, 24.9% of pigs, 4.7% of chickens, 6.3% of dogs, 10.5% of cats, and 7.1% of rodents were
Staphylococcus aureus
positive. Prevalence of methicillin-resistant
S. aureus
(MRSA) was high in pigs (animals, 21.3%; batches, 46.5%), with all MRSA isolates and most methicillin-sensitive
S. aureus
isolates belonging to clonal complex 9 (CC9) and being multidrug resistant. The predominant
S. aureus
CCs among dog and cat isolates were similar. Among rodent isolates, CC398 predominated, with
spa
t034 the most frequent
spa
type detected.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Cited by
37 articles.
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