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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2016

A Livestock-Associated, Multidrug-Resistant, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clonal Complex 97 Lineage Spreading in Dairy Cattle and Pigs in Italy.

Fabiola Feltrin, Patricia Alba, Britta Kraushaar, Angela Ianzano, María Angeles Argudín, Paola Di Matteo, María Concepción Porrero, Frank M Aarestrup, Patrick Butaye, Alessia Franco and 1 more

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 6 institutions in 6 countries.

Fabiola FeltrinIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy.
Patricia AlbaIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy.
Britta KraushaarFederal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany.
Angela IanzanoIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy.
María Angeles ArgudínVeterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (VAR-CODA-CERVA), Brussels, Belgium National Reference Centre-Staphylococcus aureus, Department of Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Paola Di MatteoIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy.
María Concepción PorreroVISAVET Health Surveillance Centre, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Frank M AarestrupNational Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Patrick ButayeVeterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (VAR-CODA-CERVA), Brussels, Belgium Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Biosciences, Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Poultry Diseases, Merelbeke, Belgium.
Alessia FrancoIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy.
Antonio BattistiIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy antonio.battisti@izslt.it.
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana · ITFederal Institute for Risk Assessment · DERoss University School of Veterinary Medicine · KNTechnical University of Denmark · DKUniversidad Complutense de Madrid · ESVeterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre · BE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pandemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clonal complex 97 (CC97) lineages originated from livestock-to-human host jumps. In recent years, CC97 has become one of the major MRSA lineages detected in Italian farmed animals. The aim of this study was to characterize and analyze differences in MRSA and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) mainly of swine and bovine origins. Forty-seven CC97 isolates, 35 MRSA isolates, and 6 MSSA isolates from different Italian pig and cattle holdings; 5 pig MRSA isolates from Germany; and 1 human MSSA isolate from Spain were characterized by macrorestriction pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis, multilocus sequence typing (MLST), spa typing, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing, and antimicrobial resistance pattern analysis. Virulence and resistance genes were investigated by PCR and microarray analysis. Most of the isolates were of SCCmec type V (SCCmec V), except for two German MRSA isolates (SCCmec III). Five main clusters were identified by PFGE, with the German isolates (clusters I and II) showing 60.5% similarity with the Italian isolates, most of which (68.1%) grouped into cluster V. All CC97 isolates were Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) negative, and a few (n = 7) tested positive for sak or scn. All MRSA isolates were multidrug resistant (MDR), and the main features were erm(B)- or erm(C)-mediated (n = 18) macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance, vga(A)-mediated (n = 37) pleuromutilin resistance, fluoroquinolone resistance (n = 33), tet(K) in 32/37 tet(M)-positive isolates, and blaZ in almost all MRSA isolates. Few host-associated differences were detected among CC97 MRSA isolates: their extensive MDR nature in both pigs and dairy cattle may be a consequence of a spillback from pigs of a MRSA lineage that originated in cattle as MSSA and needs further investigation. Measures should be implemented at the farm level to prevent spillover to humans in intensive farming areas.

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AnimalsBacterial ToxinsBacterial Typing TechniquesCattleCattle DiseasesDrug Resistance, BacterialElectrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-FieldExotoxinsGenotypeGermanyHumansItalyLeukocidinsLivestockMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusMicroarray AnalysisBacterial ToxinsExotoxinsLeukocidinsPanton-Valentine leukocidin

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PMCPMC4725266
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