Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a veterinary surgeon and five dogs in one practice.
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.
Leonard
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FC
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Abbott
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Y
Rossney
A
A
Quinn
P J
PJ
O'Mahony
R
R
Markey
B K
BK
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*