Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8497570 | Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 2016 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The ADSRRS-fingerprinting method enabled interspecific and intraspecific differentiation of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus isolates, revealing a certain degree of correlation between the species of the isolate, and the degree of similarity between the isolates. The presence of resistance genes in 13% (5/38) of the isolates obtained from wild animals, including one methicillin-resistant isolate, is relatively small in comparison to the degree of colonization by resistant strains in humans, livestock or pets. Nevertheless, due to the possibility of contact between wild animals, domestic animals and humans, transmission of resistant strains is possible, as suggested by our isolation of a MRSA strain typed as ST8 and specific spa type t1635, which had previously been isolated exclusively from humans.
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Authors
Aneta Nowakiewicz, Grażyna ZióÅkowska, PrzemysÅaw ZiÄba, Sebastian Gnat, Katarzyna Wojtanowicz-Markiewicz, Aleksandra TroÅciaÅczyk,