title: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a veterinary surgeon and five dogs in one practice.
abstract: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was isolated from five dogs with wound discharges after surgical procedures at a veterinary practice, and MRSA with similar molecular and phenotypic characteristics was isolated from the nares of one veterinary surgeon in the practice. The pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of all the isolates were indistinguishable from each other and from the most common human isolates of MRSA in Ireland.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Abbott
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rossney
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: O'Mahony
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Markey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D004285:Dogs; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field / Q000662:veterinary; D007494:Ireland; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*