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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, October 2008, p. 3817-3819, Vol. 52, No. 10
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00613-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Antimicrobial Resistance of Old and Recent Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Poultry: First Detection of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Strain ST398 {triangledown}

Mostafa Nemati,1,2* Katleen Hermans,1 Urszula Lipinska,1 Olivier Denis,3 Ariane Deplano,3 Marc Struelens,3 Luc A. Devriese,1 Frank Pasmans,1 and Freddy Haesebrouck1

Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Poultry Diseases, Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Merelbeke, Belgium,1 Department of Bacteriology, Ilam University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ilam, Iran,2 Laboratoire de Référence MRSA-Staphylocoques, Department of Microbiology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, Belgium3

Received 9 May 2008/ Returned for modification 30 June 2008/ Accepted 21 July 2008

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

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Poultry Diseases, Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Salisburylaan 133, B-9820 Merelbeke, Belgium. Phone: 32 9 264 73 62. Fax: 32 9 264 74 94. E-mail: Mostafa.Nemati{at}UGent.be

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 28 July 2008.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, October 2008, p. 3817-3819, Vol. 52, No. 10
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00613-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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