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Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. doi:10.1128/AAC.00613-08
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Antimicrobial resistance of old and recent Staphylococcus aureus isolates from poultry: first detection of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant strain ST398

Mostafa Nemati*, Katleen Hermans, Urszula Lipinska, Olivier Denis, Ariane Deplano, Marc Struelens, Luc A. Devriese, Frank Pasmans, and Freddy Haesebrouck

Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Poultry Diseases, Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Merelbeke, Belgium; Department of Bacteriology, Ilam University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ilam, Iran; Laboratoire de Référence MRSA-Staphylocoques, Department of Microbiology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, Belgium

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: Mostafa.Nemati{at}UGent.be.


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The susceptibilities of two collections of Staphylococcus aureus isolated in 1970s and 2006 from poultry were determined to 12 antimicrobial agents. For 8 antibiotics the percentage of resistance was significantly higher in the recent isolates. Ten recent isolates were MRSA and had spa types t011 and t567 belonging to multi-locus sequence type 398. This is the first report of the "livestock-associated" MRSA from healthy poultry.




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